PAP 1301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Eof, Real Wages, Political Question

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Public Administration
• Course: PAP 1301
• Professor: Joseph Roman

Document Summary

Understanding hiring and firing in the public sector: employ broad range of workers, hiring: i. Used to be that all appoints based on party affiliation, minsters hired baed on merit, crown have own set of rules but still recognize merit. Because bad appointments can come back to bite you, easier to find loyals with better quaification. 2. could exercise authority of hiring and firing. Laurier: civil service act of 1908, all canadians should have reasonable oppurtunity to work in ottawa, so all decisions had to be based on merit (only applied to jobs in ottawa, inside service) World war 1: brought merit to for front, don"t want incompetient. Civil service act of 1918: made merit apply to entire civil a. service, civil service commiwion replaced by public service commission (borden) so that canadians received highest level of service, made election process fairer.