DISCIPLINARY RESPONSIBILITY AND DISCIPLINARY PROCESS IN THE U.S. CIVIL SERVICE SYSTEM
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14529/law240413Keywords:
US civil service, civil servant, disciplinary misconduct, preventive discipline, corrective discipline, disciplinary process, administrative investigation, disciplinary action, disciplinary responsibility, appeal, alternative disciplineAbstract
The article analyzes the legal basis for disciplinary liability of US civil servants, types
of disciplinary sanctions, grounds and procedures for their application. The specificity of disciplinary
legal relations is their regulation by a significant number of legislative acts, the provisions of which
are detailed by disciplinary guidelines (rules) of federal government bodies that determine the procedure for the actions of an authority when identifying an offense of a subordinate person. The main
goal of disciplinary liability is to prevent employees from committing offenses, which is served by the
presence of preventive (educational and preventive measures), corrective (reasonable and fair disciplinary sanctions) and alternative discipline (the possibility of not applying a formal penalty with the
consent of the employee). Government agencies use "tables of disciplinary offenses", which establish
approximate lists of offenses and a hierarchy of ascending penalties for their commission, applied on
a progressive basis. The rights of employees subject to disciplinary liability correspond to the type of
legal regulation of official relations and the severity of the measures applied. The procedural categories and norms used in the disciplinary process are essentially sufficient.
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