Protections are in place to minimize political considerations in the job-related process and to ensure government employees are recruited, hired, and promoted based on job qualifications and merit and demoted or dismissed only for cause. group of answer choices

Civil Service protections are in place to minimize political considerations in the job-related process and to ensure government employees are recruited, hired, and promoted based on job qualifications and merit and demoted or dismissed only for cause.

Explanation:

Extraordinary job security is every civil servant’s most cherished perk. New federal hires who survive a three-year probationary period are automatically elevated to “career-appointment” status, the civil-service equivalent of academic tenure. Career appointees cannot be fired without “good cause,” such as gross incompetence, habitual tardiness, or on-the-job beer guzzling.

Since civil servants are considered to “own” their jobs, they are entitled to due process before their property can be seized.