Question

______ protections are in place to minimize political considerations in the job-related process and to ensure government employees are recruited, hired, and promoted based on job qualifications and merit and demoted or dismissed only for cause. Group of answer choices

Answer 1

Answer:

Civil Service protections are in place to minimize political considerations in the job-related process and to ensure government employees are recruited, hired, and promoted based on job qualifications and merit and demoted or dismissed only for cause.

Explanation:

Extraordinary job security is every civil servant’s most cherished perk. New federal hires who survive a three-year probationary period are automatically elevated to “career-appointment” status, the civil-service equivalent of academic tenure. Career appointees cannot be fired without “good cause,” such as gross incompetence, habitual tardiness, or on-the-job beer guzzling.

Since civil servants are considered to “own” their jobs, they are entitled to due process before their property can be seized.