Practice question
A local executive says appointive employees fall outside civil-service safeguards simply because the LGU is autonomous. Which response is correct?
- Autonomy automatically removes all safeguards.
- Only national personnel have any protection.
- A mayor may rewrite the Constitution by memorandum.
- Appointive status makes public employment private property.
- Sections 77–78 preserve constitutional, civil-service, and applicable statutory requirements for local personnel actions.
Legal references
- Republic Act No. 7160, sections 77–78 and 82, https://lawphil.net/statutes/repacts/ra1991/ra_7160_1991.html
- 1987 Constitution, Article IX-B, section 2(3), https://lawphil.net/consti/cons1987.html
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