At least the teachers still get a pension. The rest of the states employees hired after Dec. 31st 2019 are not eligible for any pension at all.

I’m still waiting to get mine vested, and the facility I work at is slated to close the end of next month.

and in the meantime they're still throwing out applications from qualified candidates in favor of interviewing veterans that turn down the job, resulting in not filling vacancies and non-veteran candidates getting frustrated and not applying for commonwealth jobs anymore.

I've heard from a manager that since Harrisburg 'streamlined' the hiring process it is taking up to 75 days from the time they submit a name for hire until Harrisburg HR approves it. I interviewed for a DOH position in March that I didn't get the rejection letter for until the end of July.