And, Scott Walker is getting right back to work as expected.

Scott Walker backs GOP plan to overhaul civil service system

Just three days after ending his presidential run, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker sought to reassert his conservative credentials Thursday by backing a proposed overhaul of the state’s civil service system for 30,000 employees, saying its safeguards against political patronage in hiring and firing state workers need to keep up with the times and the crush of retiring baby boomers.

Four years after repealing most collective bargaining for most public employees, Walker and two top Republican lawmakers are seeking to: eliminate the state’s civil service exams, replacing it with a résumé-based system for merit hiring; stop allowing longtime employees to avoid termination by “bumping” other workers with less seniority out of their jobs; and shorten by more than half the process for employees to appeal their dismissal or discipline.

“The process to protect merit is still there, even in the reforms you’re proposing,” Walker told Assembly Republicans in a half-hour meeting Thursday. “Those legitimate, merit-based protections are all completely in place, but it gets rid of some of the nonsense.”