PROBLEMS OF DISCIPLINARY LIABILITY OF PUBLIC OFFICERS
Purpose. The purpose of the article is to address the problems of the legal consolidation and the application of disciplinary liability against public servants. Methods. The methodology involves a comprehensive study of theoretical and practical material on the subject, as well as the formulation of relevant conclusions and recommendations. During the research the following methods of scientific knowledge were used: dialectical, terminological, formal-logical, system-functional. Results. In the course of the research it was established that disciplinary responsibility had the following features: 1) disciplinary responsibility of civil servants is a special disciplinary responsibility. Its special character is due, firstly, to a special category of employees - the status of a civil servant, secondly - to the specifics of disciplinary penalties, and thirdly - to a special order of their application; 2) at this stage of legal regulation, one of the following types of disciplinary action is applied to civil servants: a remark; reprimand; warning of incomplete official compliance; dismissal from civil service Scientific novelty. According to the results of the study, it is established that the disciplinary responsibility of civil servants at the present stage requires changes in terms of consolidation of disciplinary penalties of property character. Practical importance. The results of the study can be used to improve the labour law of Ukraine in terms of disciplinary responsibility of civil servants.