Protect the council without stripping the person of due process.
When a winner accepts civic service, the premium becomes a real six-month employment. Ethica must then handle illness, voluntary resignation, misconduct, security incidents and fraud without conflating them.
Fixed-term public employment with defined duties, a result contract and handover.
Taxable salary for actual work. Earned salary is not a lottery prize that can be confiscated retroactively.
Risk may justify temporary access suspension. A sanction requires evidence, process and a reasoned decision.
Council staffing is the system’s responsibility. Legitimate life events must not coerce a person to remain.
Acceptance changes the relationship.
Before acceptance
An offer of democratic civic service. Within 72 hours the winner may choose the job, the cash premium or decline.
After acceptance
A fixed-term employment with salary, work plan, confidentiality, conflicts rules, information security, absence, resignation and handover. The cash premium is no longer an option.
The job premium creates an opportunity. Acceptance creates employment responsibility. Legitimate incapacity must never be turned into guilt.
What happened to the council member?
Choose a scenario and month. The result shows how Ethica should separate immediate risk containment from subsequent due process.
Due process
Audit object
A bad actor must not have unilateral power to corrupt the process.
Least privilege
A council member receives only the access required for the specific oversight task and only for as long as needed.
Separation of duties
No one can unilaterally change a ballot, move money, modify production code and approve their own change.
Two-person rule
Critical administrative operations require separate approval or verification.
Append-only log
Security and decision events must be reviewable later and cannot be deletable by the person under review.
Role-based vetting
The scope of vetting is determined by the role’s damage potential and legal basis — not by general suspicion of selected citizens.
Automatic privilege expiry
Privileges expire when the assignment or delegation ends and must be explicitly renewed.
The reviewed organisation must not unilaterally judge its reviewer.
The Main Work proposes a separate, statutory and independent board for serious disciplinary, security and access matters. It should provide written notice, relevant evidence, an opportunity to respond, representation or union support, a reasoned decision and a defined review path.
This is a proposed Ethica institution, not a description of an authority that exists today.
- Stop necessary access when a concrete risk requires it.
- Secure evidence without presuming guilt.
- Investigate with a separated decision function.
- Hear the person and record objections.
- Decide proportionately with reasons.
- Review/appeal through a defined legal route.
1,000 members + 1,000 accepted reserves.
The reserve pool is not ranked. Every real vacancy triggers a new verifiable draw among remaining reserves. The selected person has 24 hours to accept or decline.
Open the reserve system →No salary and no four-year cooldown until a real vacancy is drawn and accepted. If the reserve declines or does not respond, Ethica draws again.
Current Swedish law is a reference model — the exact Ethica model requires specific legislation.
This page is based on Main Work R301–R308. It is a system design, not individual legal advice.