Section 25-2-5
Applicability of Merit System.
Anything in this chapter to the contrary notwithstanding, all employees and officers of the Department of Labor, including the chiefs of divisions but not including the Secretary of Labor, even though he be a chief of a division, shall be subject to the Merit System.
(Acts 1939, No. 161, p. 232; Code 1940, T. 26, §27.)