The disciplinary system for public servants in the Iraqi legislation, a comparative study with the Lebanese legislation

Discipline is an organizational process aimed at refining and correcting employee behavior in order to ensure the effectiveness of management and its regular functioning.

In order to limit the authority of the administration to apply disciplinary measures against the public employee unlawfully, the Iraqi and Lebanese legislators did not release the authorities’ hand in imposing the punishment, but required them to take measures that result in their violation of the illegality of the decisions issued by them in the field of disciplining the public employee, and that is through the legislation of laws  Discipline represented by the Iraqi State Employees Discipline Law No. 14 of 1991 amended, as well as the Lebanese public servants system established by Legislative Decree No. 112 of 1959, as well as Laws No. 54 of 1965 and Law No. 315 of 1994 that dealt with disciplinary measures that were not covered by the aforementioned system.  The issue of discipline is a general subject that touches a broad segment of society and they are the employees, so it requires familiarity with its most important aspects in line with the functional legislations that Iraq and Lebanon passed through by getting acquainted with the relevant legal texts in the Iraqi and Lebanese legislations and explaining many concepts related to the subject  Therefore, the topic of this research is limited to comparing the disciplinary or disciplinary system for public servants in force in Iraqi legislation with the Lebanese legislation.