Jack C. Stroud and Frank Roeckner V‪.‬

Two employees of the Department of Labor and Industrial Services, appellants Jack Stroud and Frank Roeckner, were involuntarily transferred from offices in cities where they lived to offices in other cities. They challenged the transfers, claiming that the Department's director had acted arbitrarily. The challenges were made unsuccessfully through the Department's grievance procedure and then were presented to the Personnel Commission. The Commission's hearing officer ruled in their favor. The full Commission, however, decided that the Commission lacked jurisdiction to hear the case. The district court agreed. The two employees have appealed. They ask us to rule that the Idaho Personnel Commission has jurisdiction to consider involuntary transfers of classified state employees. For the reasons that follow, we affirm. The sole issue on appeal revolves around the language of I.C. § 67-5316(b). That statute provides: