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Uruguay Public Administration
Uruguay traditionally has had a sizable civil service
organization. Civil service regulations determined
conditions for
admission to the service as a career. In accordance with
these
regulations for service in the national government,
departmental
governments adopted regulations for their own civil
service
personnel. Permanent career status was achieved after a
fairly
short probationary period.
The Sanguinetti government reestablished the National
Office
of the Civil Service (Oficina Nacional del Servicio
Civil--ONSC),
which the military regime had abolished, as the technical
advisory organ specializing in administrative reform
matters. The
ONSC publicized its ideas on change and reform by
sponsoring
academic, public, and international seminars and
roundtables.
The ONSC's duties included controlling the entrance of
personnel into the public administration and streamlining
public
institutions. Under Sanguinetti, the ONSC also implemented
course
requirements for civil service managers and, with the
assistance
of France's National School of Public Administration
(Ecole
Nationale d'Administration Publique), created a "training
course
for high executives of the central administration." During
the
first twenty years since its creation in 1969, the ONSC
trained
or provided technical assistance to some 4,000 public
employees,
more than one-third of them between 1986 and 1988.
Following ONSC guidelines, the Sanguinetti government
restructured the civil service and reassigned 1,787
workers. At
the end of 1988, the state employed a total of 271,124
workers
(approximately 20 percent of the labor force), who
included 1,281
members of the legislative branch, 106,455 members of the
executive branch, 5,132 members of the judicial branch,
117,423
members of the autonomous entities, and 40,833 members of
the
departmental governments.
Over twenty autonomous entities administered certain
national
industrial and commercial services (see
table 14,
Appendix).
These agencies were divided into two general
classifications: the
first was concerned with education, welfare, and culture;
the
second, with industry and commerce.
Data as of December 1990
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