Recent decades have been hard times for civil servants in western countries which systems were under pressure for personnel reforms. The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) brought in an extreme stresses for changes and cutback management in the civil service. These were particularly deep in European Southern countries like Portugal and Spain where governments are introducing budgets cuts and private sector practices in the management of public services to reduce the payroll. As a consequence, many areas of public services have lost their uniqueness and become quite similar to the general employment system. The aim of this paper is to do a comparative analysis of the changes in Portuguese and Spanish public services in recent years. This compared analysis will also allow to know if some greater magnitude changes in the public sector are being produced.
