Revision of the Local Public Officer Act and Introduction of the Performance Appraisal System

Abstract

In April, 2014, a part of the local public officer act was revised, and the local government was obliged to introduce the performance appraisal system. It is completely carried out from this April, 2016. As a result, it would be applied to all public employees until now, because it was already applied to a government official from 2009.Why is it that the performance appraisal system was introduced daringly, until now though there was the evaluation of work performance system ?The introduction of this performance appraisal system did not come out alone suddenly. It is a “mop―up” of the movement for at least these past several decades to change the way of public employee’s work and treatment fundamentally.This paper considers the change of the way of working of the local public service worker from the following points, 1） the contents of the performance appraisal system submitted and its characteristic, 2） the actual situation of the appraisal system of Tokyo Metropolitan, Kanagawa prefecture, Osaka and Kyoto, 3） the countermeasure of labor unions to the performance appraisal.