I approve of this. I was a Commonwealth Civil Servant, albeit 'Management Level'^(*), for nearly six years and although most of my peers held bachelor's degrees and I have a master's degree, there are many intermediate-grade positions (I would say as high as a five or six) that I think that many high school graduates could have succeeded in. Some of them would probably be able to attain higher positions. Given that Commonwealth positions are not exceedingly well-compensated, they're probably better suited to people not carrying student loan debt.

Somebody in my former department in a similar position who was a grade above me in fact had no college degree.

I would prefer that society be less 'credentialist' in general.

I don't know how much effect this will really have, but I think that it's a reasonable policy and perhaps good politics too.

^(*'Management level* employees are not necessarily managers and most are not. I was just a drone myself. Many personnel in budget offices, for example, are 'Management Level'. It's ostensibly for personnel who are in policy development positions. They are are also not allowed to join a union, although they do have civil service protections, an are not paid for working extra hours, which occasionally happens. There are also paid according to a separate MA payscale, which was in fact lower paid than standard (ST payscale employees when I started, as they had been denied pay increases in the aftermath of the great recession with their only advantage being accumulating annual leave slightly faster in their first few years of service. Governor Wolf later unified the payscales.))