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title: "How are federal workers generally hired and fired? Is this process more or less fair when compared to the past? What was the spoils system?"  
description: "How are federal workers generally hired and fired? Is this process more or less fair when compared to the past? What was the spoils system?"  
author: "tasman Johnson"  
published: 2018-04-04  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/40754/how-are-federal-workers-generally-hired-and-fired-is-this-process-more-or-less-fair-when-compared-to-the-past-what-was-the-spoils-system  
category: "history, politics & society"  
tags: ["usa history"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# How are federal workers generally hired and fired? Is this process more or less fair when compared to the past? What was the spoils system? 

How are [federal](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/101582/what-is-the-role-of-the-federal-reserve-in-the-us-economy) [workers](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/42806/which-of-the-populist-party-s-policies-undermined-its-attempts-to-appeal-to-urban-workers) generally hired and fired? Is this [process](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/11646/some-ways-of-using-big-data-in-the-business-marketing-process) more or less [fair](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/51306/what-programs-did-congress-pass-from-truman-s-fair-deal-what-programs-did-congress-refuse) when compared to the [past](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13129/great-tools-for-continuing-your-education-past-college)? What was the [spoils system](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/41716/what-happened-to-president-garfield-because-of-the-patronage-spoils-system)? \
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