Merit protection is not 'red tape': the dangers of scrapping job selection criteria

By Andrew Podger
Updated April 24 2018 - 8:42pm, first published November 27 2015 - 3:39pm

Job selection criteria are misused too often, and it is understandable that Public Service Commissioner John Lloyd and Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet secretary Michael Thawley are concerned about wasted effort on bureaucratic processes. But removing selection criteria would throw out the baby – the merit principle – with the bathwater.

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