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The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act is a United States federal law passed by the 47th United States Congress and signed into law by President Chester A. Arthur on January 16, 1883. The act mandates that most positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political patronage.
The Civil Service Reform Act (called "the Pendleton Act") is an 1883 federal law that created the United States Civil Service Commission. [13] It eventually placed most federal employees on the merit system and marked the end of the so-called "spoils system". [13]
Garfield's assassination was instrumental to the passage of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act on January 16, 1883. Garfield himself had called for civil service reform in his inaugural address [85] and supported it as president in the belief that it would make government more efficient. [86]
The CSRA was one of the largest reforms in Federal personnel regulations since the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 and is one of the Carter Administration's major domestic achievements. However, the early views of academics on the long-term effects of the CSRA have been varied.
They took credit for passing the state's 1884 civil service law, which was a stronger version of the federal Pendleton Act of 1883. Both laws were enacted to limit the effect of political patronage, thus disrupting the spoils system. The goals were improved morality and increased efficiency.
Aug. 31—ANDERSON — The developer of two housing additions has filed a federal lawsuit against the town of Pendleton over impact fees. The Clayton Properties Group doing business as Arbor Homes ...
The Fair Labor Standards Act prohibits 14 and 15 year-old teens from working before 7 a.m. or after 7 p.m. during the school year. All minors are prohibited from certain occupations and industries ...
Some legal experts have argued that it would create chaos in the civil service, which was formed by the 1883 Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act to have a more professional workforce and end political bias and the corruption of the spoils system; and last overhauled in the Carter administration through the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978.