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Public Service Concept
Levan Isoria, Paata TuravaApril 23, 2012
Georgian Development Research Institute
Elements of the Concept
Classical model
Modern
model
Georgian Publi
c Servi
ce
State Service
State political servicePublic serviceObligatory military/alternative civil servicePublic/legal duties exercised by private
entities
Public service is not exercised by:
• The persons engaged in state political services• The persons engaged in obligatory
military/alternative civil service• Private entities who exercise public legal
duties (functional interpretation of administrative organs)
State Political Service
• President of Georgia• Members of the Georgian Parliament• Head/members of Georgian Government• Members of the high representative organs of
Abkhazia and Ajara autonomous republics• Chairmen and members of Abkhazia and Ajara
autonomous republics’ highest executive organs• Members of the local self governance
representative organs
Public Service
• Employment through appointing or electing to the budgetary paid position for performing public duties.
The frames of regulating the Law on Public Service
• The activities of the civil representatives of the executive authorities.
• The activities of the executers of administrative functions of the legislative authorities, the representatives of the top level bodies of the autonomous republics and of local self governance bodies.
The following bodies’ activities are regulated by the law on public service as well as appendixes of specific
legislation
• Law enforcement bodies• Militaries on contract basis• Diplomatic Corps• Chamber of Control• Election Commission• Taxation and Customs offices
The following bodies are functioning according to special legislation as well as by some articles
of the law on public service
• Courts• Independent regulatory bodies• National Bank• Public defender/ombudsman
Only following Public Law legal entities perform the public services
• Public legal corporations• Public legal institutions• Public legal funds
The territorial Public Law Corporation based on membership
• Is separated (as organization) from the state and represents a self governing unit
• Executes state legal duties • It is subordinated to the legislation and state
supervision
Public Legal Institution
• The aim for creating the public legal institutions is to provide services
• Through the public institution format it is possible to create public broadcaster, universities, vocational and secondary schools, service agencies and so on
Public Legal Funds
• Serves to reach the aims determined by the founders through its property
• Protecting certain spheres of social and cultural life as well as protecting interests of certain groups of the society
• Libraries, cultural monuments as well as patients with chronicle diseases or mental and physical disability - people who need special care.
Public Service
Hired, full time
employee
Hired, part time employee
Public servant/Cle
rk
Public Service within the Contractual Frames
• Hired, full time employee: a full time staff member is to fulfill the major aims of the institution. Performs public legal duties for the reason of meeting the needs of this institution.
• Hired, part time employee: is a hired person for the needs of fulfilling goals and functions of the institution and is granted with certain rights for performing public legal duties. No public legal rights are granted to him/her.
Criteria for distinguishing between a part time public servant/clerk and a hired, full time employee
Public servant/clerk Hired, full time employee
Public (administrative) law Private labor law
Appointment - individual administrative act
Labor contract
Legal grounds Individual or collective contract
Principle of career In compliance with his/her activities
Disciplinary responsibility, termination according to the law
Termination of the contract
Principle of alimentation Accordance to the performance
Special social protection General means
Public servant/clerk Hired, full time employee
Ban on strikes The right to strike
Administrative dispute Private law dispute
Public servant/clerk
Professional Public servant/clerk
Political Public servant/clerk
Voluntary Public servant/clerk
Professional public servant/clerk
• A person who performs his/her professional activities and duties full time and receives for this appropriate salary and guarantees.
Political public servant/clerk
• A person who occupies such position where he/she performs activities according to the political views and goals of the government.
Voluntary public servant/clerk
• A person who performs his/her public duties not as his major professional duties but in parallel to his/her professional activates without receiving additional salary.
Classification of the public servant/clerk
• public servant/clerk in state service • public servant/clerk in the local self
governance service• public servant/clerk in the service of other
public legal entity
The main principles of the professional public servant/clerk
• Legal relations between the public servant/clerk and the employer
• Lifelong appointment• The loyalty commitment• Employers’ commitments for appropriate
protection• Neutrality from the political parties
• Principles of the career • The right to hold appropriate rank • Right for appropriate social protection
(alimentation)• Right to receive appropriate legal assistance• Protection against being dismissed illegally • Right to apply to the court
Taking the position
Principle of career –
(professional civil
servant/clerk)
Principle of free
selection (hired, full
time employee)
Career Principle
• Ranking system• Certification, Evaluation• Qualification improvement • Appropriate mechanisms for financial
stimulation• Career principle secures the process of
renewing personnel
Unified System of Ranking
• Unification of the public service structure • Unification of the names for the positions • Mobility
Stability of Personnel
The law should precisely define:• Legal and factual circumstances of qualifying for the
position• Legal basis for dismissing personnel• Protection of social and legal guarantees • Public servant/clerk’s performance should be
assessed regularly and he/she should be trained for improving his/her qualification
• His/her career promotion should be based on professional level and professional skills.
Law on Public ServiceProblems of current law
• Article 96 (liquidation) • Paragraph 2, Article 96 (re-organization) • Article 97 (restoration)• Article 98 (dismissing due to the irrelevance)• Article 99 ( dismissing)• Article 108-109 (warning)
Public servant/clerk
(unified system of compensation)
Hired, full time employee
(compensation within the discretion
margins of the public service,
according to the performance.)
Social Guarantees
• compensation scale according to the unified scheme of ranks
• Hired, full time employee; compensation based on qualification and work efficiency of performance
• pension insurance• Legislative regulation of the amount of bonus
and payment procedures.
Public Service Council
• Elaborating of public service main policy• establishing common standards for
recruitment• School Accreditation/ Providing Training and
retraining system for public servants• Settlement of the disputes