Civil Service Law

A civil servant is an employee in public service. A civil servant does not serve under an employment contract, but under a unilateral appointment. Employment law does not apply to a civil servant; instead, civil service law applies. The Civil Servants (Normalization of Legal Status) Act came into effect on January 1, 2020. As a result, the differences between the legal status of a large group of civil servants and those of employees with an employment contract have been aligned. However, there remains a group of civil servants for whom the original legal status has not changed (judges, police, fire department). For them, procedures in civil service matters are conducted on the basis of administrative procedural law. The Civil Code does not apply to those procedures; the General Administrative Law Act does. The basis for the legal status of all civil servants is the Civil Servants Act.

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