Pragmatics of International Public Service Through the Lens of the UN Employment Law

Abstract

German legal system, according to the established legal rules, officials could be classified in two main ways: first, according to their branch of service (legal, technical, etc.); and second, according to the nature of their duties and their level of training. Based on the latter, a distinction was made between substantive, adjudicating, and official drafting officials, auxiliary and administrative officials (clerks), and the actual physical workers-the servants. A separate category comprised non-commissioned officers, who were not classified by any pay grade. Those in the first category had to have a college education, while in the second category, a secondary education was sufficient (see Patriot, 2009, p. 343).43 From the point of view of the profession of life at the same time, we could see a great similarity between the Hungarian and the pragmatized German systems in terms of status security; however, since 2010, this phenomenon has been decreasing-in this respect, the Hungarian system is similar to the Dutch system, which closely follows the German system in other respects. The pragmatized German system means that an official can, in practice, only be removed from his position through disciplinary proceedings, and if the employer ceases to exist, the system is obliged to place him elsewhere. 44 Peine és Heinlein, 1999, pp. 1 and 43. 45 In public service systems, the cleaning tasks are usually outsourced by the administrations to external companies, while the security service is provided either by armed security services contracted out or, as in the case of national ministries, by officers of the police department's external guard.