The Pendleton Civil Service Act was passed due to public disdain for the old spoils system. The spoils system had become too indoctrinated in the government and led to the assassination of President Garfield. Approved on January 16, 1883, the Pendleton Act established a merit-based system of selecting government officials and supervising their work. Following the assassination of President James A. Garfield by a disgruntled job seeker, Congress passed the Pendleton Act in January of 1883. The Civil Service Reform Act (called "the Pendleton Act") is an 1883 federal law that created the United States Civil Service Commission. It eventually placed most federal employees on the merit system and marked the end of the so-called "spoils system." The Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act is a United States federal law, enacted in 1883, which established that positions within the federal government should be awarded on the basis of merit instead of political affiliation. The Pendleton Act provided that …show more content…
The act also made it unlawful to fire or demote for political reasons of the employees who are covered by the law.
The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CSRA) was designed to promote overall fairness in Federal personnel actions. The CSRA provides that certain personnel practices cannot be based on attributes or conduct that do not adversely affect employee performance, such as marital status and political affiliation. The civil service commission is a government agency that is constituted by legislature to regulate the employment and working conditions of civil servants, oversee hiring and promotions, and promotes the values of the