Civil Service in Poland - Regulatory Framework, Political Conflicts
Civil Service in Poland - Regulatory Framework, Political Conflicts

Summary/Abstract: This article describes the frustrated process of creating a new Civil Service (CS) in Poland after 1989. Despite the 1996 Civil Service Act, CS had been only partially established. Each political party running the government successively introduced the amendments into the 1996 Act. In 2006 there were more than 100,000 people in the CS Corps. However, only a minority of them are civil servants proper, meaning people who underwent a special qualifying procedure. Legal solutions mix two models: career-oriented (closed) and position-oriented (open) model of CS. Political disputes have concerned mainly eligibility for the new CS corps. Post-communist and post-solidarity governments in fact abused the recruitment procedures due to their political interests. Politicization, low remuneration, low motivation to become CS, and low public interest limit the chances of successful completion of the initial project.

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