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Nov 17, 2004 security of tenure civil service illegal dismissal local government political patronage

Security of Tenure vs Political Patronage: Protecting Civil Service Employees From Unlawful Dismissal

When a mayor forced a municipal engineer to resign or transfer, the Supreme Court reaffirmed that civil service security of tenure cannot be sacrificed to political patronage.