Article 13 of Decree of 1979 concerning the Civil Service Regulations

Except for leadership positions, a person appointed for the first time shall be placed on probation for one year, during which, or within one month of its expiry, that person may be dismissed if proven unfit to perform the duties of the position. Otherwise, that person shall be deemed confirmed in the position to which appointed, and the probationary period shall be counted as part of the period of service. The fitness or unfitness of a person subject to a period shall be established in accordance with the rules and procedures laid down by the Minister in agreement with the Personnel Bureau. A person who is reappointed shall be subject to the provisions of the preceding two paragraphs if that person has not successfully completed the probationary period in the previous position or if the position to which that person is reappointed differs from the previous position. An employee shall not be entitled to any gratuity for a probationary period that passes without success. Second: Evaluation of Employees' Efficiency Article 14 (1) The immediate supervisor shall evaluate the efficiency of the employees supervised who occupy positions in the general, technical support and auxiliary occupational groups for each completed calendar year, assigning a rating of excellent, very good, good or poor, and shall then submit it to the next person in the chain of responsibility for an opinion. Where the opinions of the two supervisors differ, and where there is no supervisor above the immediate supervisor, the report shall be submitted to the Personnel Affairs Committee to assess efficiency. Reports shall be considered final, except for efficiency reports with a rating of poor. The Civil Service Council shall lay down the rules and bases of evaluation and the necessary procedures and time limits, and shall determine the evaluation year, as an exception to evaluation for a calendar year, for positions whose nature or circumstances so require. As for holders of leadership positions, the Civil Service Council shall establish a special system containing the rules, bases, procedures and time limits for their evaluation and the consequences of that evaluation. The competent Minister shall prepare a performance evaluation report for each of them. In entities whose service affairs are regulated by special laws, the competent Minister may, if those laws contain no performance evaluation provisions, issue a decision following the approval of the Civil Service Council containing the rules, bases and time limits for performance evaluation, the necessary procedures, the mechanism for notification of that evaluation, and the rules and procedures for grievances against it. Article 15 (2) Repealed