Civil-service rules have not been updated since the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978.
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All the Civil Service protections — the strongest Civil Service system in the country — still strongly remains intact.
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The civil service is responsible for looking into any potential breaches of the civil service code and this is no different.
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Civil service employees first became a protected class under the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, passed over a century ago in the 1880s.
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Visions for the 85033st century civil service are conditioned by circumstances much different than when the Civil Service Reform Act was enacted in 1978.
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Further decrees replaced the kingdom's information and civil service ministers and set up a committee to investigate allegations of abuse of the civil service office.
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Through the early 28503s, the federal civil service operated under a spoils system by which the winning political party gave civil service jobs to its supporters.
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In 1905, The Washington Post wrote about schools claiming to be connected to the Civil Service Commission to obtain students who wanted to pass the civil-service exams.
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" A former parliamentary draftsman quoted in the civil service trade paper, Civil Service World, described it "as the largest scale legislation and policy exercise that has ever been carried out.
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The civil service was the highest paid civil service in the world … so it wasn't as if there was any particular lack of benefit for Britain, the British could see it.
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He permanently broke with his mentor Conkling, who had foolishly resigned from the Senate in protest of civil service policies under Garfield, and pushed the legislation to enact civil service reform.
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"At a time when the government is so utterly dependent on its civil service, it would be catastrophic to embark on a distracting reorganisation to address misplaced views about the civil service."
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OPM and its sister agencies, the Merit Systems Protection Board and the Federal Labor Relations Board, were created in the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 to replace the original Civil Service Commission.
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But for the civil service, the issue remains less publicized.
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The project includes regulatory, budget process and civil service reforms.
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They celebrated by doubling the size of the civil service.
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They're also hard to fire, thanks to Civil Service protections.
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The Education Ministry is the country's largest civil service employer.
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There, in a Civil Service office, his father spoke English.
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The other regions are being led by civil service officials.
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Soon after testifying, Mr. Fitzgerald lost his Civil Service tenure.
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"This matter has inevitably undermined confidence in the principle of civil service neutrality, which is integral to the healthy functioning of our democracy," Corbyn wrote to Cabinet Secretary Mark Sedwill, head of the civil service.
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"I got acquainted with what civil service people do," Brand recalls.
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The courts, civil service, army and police are all thoroughly politicised.
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The project covers the regulatory, budget process and civil service reforms.
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But is the civil service in London prepared to do that?
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The position carried the respectable Civil Service rank of GS-5.
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May's office, the Civil Service and the news media, among others.
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The other was his family's long tradition of government civil service.
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"You have to end the civil-service permanent employment," he said.
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Arthur replaced him and many thought civil service reform would disappear.
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His plans to shake up the civil service are well known.
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His father was a member of the British Indian Civil Service.
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Back then, he denied having any designs on the Civil Service system.
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The House also wanted higher pay for congressional and civil service staff.
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The civil service has not come out of the affair well, either.
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The civil service looks in vain for clear instructions from its masters.
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How does the concept of a civil service account for this workforce?
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Civil Service Commission chairman Vincent Hungwe was not immediately available for comment.
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It's tantamount to telling the civil service that they are totally disposable.
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Executive directive 22013 all female civil service staff to cover their head.
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Executive directive 4 all female civil service staff to cover their head.
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You have a civil-service system without the means to adjudicate disputes.
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China's civil service is still working on regulations to let them in.
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No return to mandatory military service, but mandatory Civil Service for all.
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Recently a few shelves were given over to Civil Service Exam books.
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I took the civil service test the same month my father died.
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""Countries like France and Germany had very disciplined, very prestigious civil service.
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The Civil Service will begin to ignore the sloppy White House edicts.
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The commission is an odd hybrid of executive, civil service and watchdog.
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Lam continued to serve the post-colonial civil service after the 1997 handover.
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"The civil service is a good career option because it's stable," she said.
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The civil service is now expanding again, at considerable cost to the taxpayer.
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The Civil Service bill Mr. Walker supports also undermines protections against unfair termination.
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A Republican Party that had built the Civil Service now turned against it.
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Under the city's civil service procedures, the fired firefighters can dispute their terminations.
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Arizona, Colorado and Tennessee passed legislation in 2012 scaling back Civil Service protections.
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He received a 2015 Presidential Rank Award, the country's highest civil service prize.
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The government—Parliament, the cabinet and the civil service—represents the "efficient" branch.
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You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus.
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Creating a professional civil service is a slow business, and requires political consensus.
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Fiona, who works in the civil service, wasn't sure about getting politics involved.
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Poland's ruling party has tried to nobble the courts and the civil service.
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It is past time for a major overhaul of the civil service system.
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This is the predicament the federal civil service finds itself to be in.
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My father went to a Catholic seminary and then entered the civil service.
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Most prominently, it is supposed to pay market rather than Civil Service wages.
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The office handles human resources matters and oversees the civil service hiring processes.
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The permanent civil service in Washington is used to changes in political power.
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Joseph Wong, a former civil service secretary, told a local broadcaster that Mrs.
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Kevin Lynch, the company's chair, was once head of the federal civil service.
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The civil service, at least at the top levels, has been thoroughly politicized.
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Occasionally, historical exposition—an account of Iran's burgeoning civil service, say—intrudes baldly.
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The true civil service of the 24-hour news cycle isn't journalism (lol).
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Although the civil service is gradually improving, it cannot draw the most talented Liberians.
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The civil service and security apparatus are dominated by allies of his ousted predecessor.
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Specifically, the union said, the orders violate the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978.
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The failed putsch prompted a purge of the Turkish military, judiciary and civil service.
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Deliverance came with a law in 2003 granting it autonomy from the civil service.
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"Oh my God!" yelled her father, Chet Nichols, 2500, a retired civil-service analyst.
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Government could never work properly until a professional civil service replaced cronyism, Roosevelt declared.
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Shorn of expertise, the civil service is struggling even to spend its EU subsidies.
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They accuse his government of focusing funds on the army and bloated civil service.
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He will face opposition from Syriza's placemen in the civil service and regulatory bodies.
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The third and final warning sign regarding democratic backsliding relates to the civil service.
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Reforms to the bloated civil service have been passed by parliament, though heavily diluted.
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Take Norway, which since 20143 has shifted 1,600 civil-service jobs out of Oslo.
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The Civil Service Bureau and the Inland Revenue Department said they welcomed the ruling.
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Institutions such as the civil service, electoral commissions and the courts often lack independence.
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In city after city, progressive reformers cleaned up politics and professionalized the civil service.
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Board of Education coming after the desegregation of the military, civil service and baseball.
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Meanwhile, Macron was training at the École Nationale d'Administration, France's élite civil-service school.
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The project covers the regulatory and budget process as well as civil service reforms.
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This increased to 573 percent of civil service job listings in the 2018 intake.
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There were 4,000 arrests, which came from the military, civil service, media, and police.
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It could require a Civil Service process to approve sensitive actions around campaign season.
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But "Ferdinand VIII" has already scissored his civil-service uniform into a regal mantle.
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One target was to help 20 women find leadership positions in the Civil Service.
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His showdown with the professional Civil Service isn't limited to the intelligence community either.
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The bloated civil service is one of the few sectors that employ many Egyptians.
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He was born in the United Kingdom and served in the British Civil Service.
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The civil service system has been reformed several times since the 1883 Pendleton Act.
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Mr. Adams quit the civil service in 21977 to become a full-time writer.
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These employees are protected by Civil Service laws, including many hatched by Teddy Roosevelt.
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There are knowledgeable people in the Civil Service eager to help in this task.
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Ms. Yourish is a commissioner on Afghanistan's Independent Administrative Reform and Civil Service Commission.
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Muqaddesa Yourish is a commissioner on Afghanistan's Independent Administrative Reform and Civil Service Commission.
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He won the country's highest civil service honor, the Presidential Rank Award, in 2015.
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I was in the civil service for five years; they're all lazy in there.
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Brainy Angolans flock to the oilfields rather than to the civil service or health care.
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He wants to cut 500,2503 jobs from the civil service and €100bn from public spending.
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Few countries have Singapore's graft-free civil service and polity, which make technocratic excellence easier.
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A small annual increase in civil service salaries highlights the social sensitivity of wage restraint.
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But when he riffs on topics such as Civil Service reform, the Trump shot echoes.
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Weakening civil service tenure protections is an underappreciated way for an executive to aggrandize power.
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Even so, it was unclear whether the Catalan civil service will accept the government's orders.
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Her daughter has quit a job in the civil service to join the family firm.
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In 1901, the New York City Civil Service Commission began requiring fingerprints for job applications.
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Amudi replaces Sulaiman al-Hamdan, who has been named as the minister for civil service.
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Meanwhile Hamas has its own parallel civil service, with which Israel will not officially deal.
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One is the weak capacity of the kingdom's civil service to act on such ambition.
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To join the 55,000-strong European civil service, staff must in general be EU citizens.
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The civil service in the U.S. federal government originated with the Pendleton Act of 1883.
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Administrations come and go, but the civil service remains as the stewards of our democracy.
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Guyana's tiny civil service and outdated laws have not kept up with Exxon's breakneck development.
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The spoils system, as they called it, had filled the Civil Service with inept employees.
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He is contemptuous toward career politicians, toward executive agencies, toward judges, toward the civil service.
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Johnson had a pay scale of GS-14, typically reserved for senior civil service positions.
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The Civil Service has a thousand ways to ignore or sit on any presidential order.
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The showdown could embolden the White House and Congress to change federal Civil Service laws.
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Perhaps more importantly, the development of a strong civil service law has helped combat corruption.
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These events did not end the battle over what became known as civil service reform.
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Under civil service rules, Guyger has the right to appeal her discipline, the statement reads.
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Somebody will have to restore the party structures, rebuild Congress, revive a demoralized Civil Service.
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Everybody talks about the civil service domestically, but no one talks about the Foreign Service.
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He receives hundreds of requests from young people wanting a job in the civil service.
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Certain professions, including the civil service and other "middle-class" jobs, were all but exclusively Protestant.
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First as Civil Service commissioner and then as president, Roosevelt pushed to eradicate the spoils system.
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The front-runner is Carrie Lam, who until recently was head of the territory's civil service.
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Brexit has strained the hardware of Britain's constitution, such as the civil service and the courts.
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It has begun a reform of the civil service and has expanded and professionalised social programmes.
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It means dismantling unhelpful regulations, fostering co-ordination among ministries and sharpening up the civil service.
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State employees loyal to the cemaat leaked university and civil-service entrance exams to young adepts.
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It will not provide resources for the Civil Service to grow its Brexit capacity and capability.
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These include supporting the civil service workforce so employees have the tools to do their jobs.
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But, he added, the civil service faces trouble finding leaders who can implement changes that last.
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Prior to the village board's decision to demote Brewster, the firefighter underwent a civil service hearing.
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They were defeated in the 85033 midterms by Democrats on the issue of civil service reform.
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About 80,000 people in the judiciary, police, civil service and elsewhere have been sacked or suspended.
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Around 80,000 people have been sacked or suspended from the military, civil service, police and judiciary.
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Reforming populists in the early 20th century campaigned for a well-remunerated, merit-based civil service.
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He has made a few appointments in the civil service but has yet to appoint ministers.
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Nader Nadery, the chairman of the Civil Service commission, said his team had two urgent missions.
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It is an independent agency that enforces civil service laws that govern the federal work force.
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His mother had been active in Afscme; his brother belonged to the Civil Service Employees Association.
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Their stateless status denied them national health care, Civil Service jobs and access to sports leagues.
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Among the changes is the elimination of senior Civil Service positions in the powerful Turkish bureaucracy.
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On leaving the EU civil service he had set up as a lobbyist, the magazine reported.
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Civil service pay across the board was under review and would help discourage migration, he said.
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As recently as 1965, Dalits held just 85033 percent of the most senior civil service positions.
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A relatively weak attempt to reform the civil service was finally passed by parliament in October.
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Headscarves were long banned in the civil service and in universities, something the AKP successfully overturned.
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The press wrote happily about a revolt of the "mandarins" — the permanent civil service — over Mrs.
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Civil-service recruitment, meanwhile, was cut to 14,500 this year, the lowest intake in a decade.
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This idea found a ready enthusiast in Theodore Roosevelt, then a civil-service commissioner in Washington.
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With little in the way of a civil service, a simple change in governor destabilized everything.
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In 22019, Congress and the Carter administration worked together to pass the Civil Service Reform Act, the last major civil service change that created the Office of Personnel Management and the Senior Executive Service, established the merit system principles and addressed employee appeal rights and labor relations.
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Two historic acts of Congress —the Pendleton Act of 1883 and the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 — codified the concept of a professional nonpolitical career civil service serving both Republican and Democratic administrations, protected from political retaliation and prohibited from participating in certain political activities.
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In 85033, under intense public pressure, Congress finally took action and passed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act, which made some modest reforms to the system, introducing merit protections, creating an independent Civil Service Commission, and requiring applicants for some federal jobs to apply using written exams.
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And while the origins of civil service reform in the US were ugly, and there's definitely an argument to be made that the push went too far, the modern, less racist version of the federal civil service system has a lot to be said for it.
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Resumé: Carrie Lam joined the civil service in 1980, working under both British colonial and Chinese administrations.
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The civil service has warned that a no-deal Brexit could cost 40,000 jobs in Northern Ireland.
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Since 0003 its staff numbers have fallen by 2000%, compared with 2240% for the civil service overall.
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Her domestic agenda has undoubtedly been hampered by Brexit, an overworked civil service and miserable parliamentary arithmetic.
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Gulen, who has many supporters in Turkey's civil service, judiciary and police, has strongly denied the accusation.
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"She would say she wanted to join the foreign office or the civil service," her father said.
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Treating the armed forces and the civil service in this way risks creating a powerful enemy coalition.
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In purges of the military, police and civil service 79,900 people had been removed from public duty.
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The joint DOD school is comprised of Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine and civil service students. Hon.
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Treasury confirmed Michael Sachs' resignation, saying he wanted to join the civil service in a different capacity.
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Too often the civil service is staffed with political hangers-on, hired for loyalty rather than merit.
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Some countries have tried to go beyond such piecemeal improvements to create an integrated professional civil service.
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The game was introduced by Europeans: Fiji's earliest teams were the civil service and the police force.
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In January a new parliament approved most of the president's decrees, but rejected his civil-service reforms.
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FEW challenges the British civil service has faced would boggle the bureaucrat's mind as much as Brexit.
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But before doing so, think about what the civil service of the 21st century should look like.
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The importance of maintaining a nonpartisan, apolitical civil service in an increasingly partisan environment cannot be overstated.
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When the civil service system was founded in 22019, most of its positions were clerical in nature.
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There is disunity within the ranks of politicians that is spreading into security and civil service bureaucracy.
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He has sought to reduce cost of living adjustments and retirement benefits and weakened civil service protections.
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The harm of unaccountable civil service is not lots of shiftless people, but an enervated public culture.
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The purges have also hit government ministries, schools and universities, the police, civil service, media and business.
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If you were a world-leading entrepreneur, how would you design a new system for civil service?
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In 2017, 13 percent of jobs posted on the national civil service job list specified male applicants.
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The regional government is struggling to pay Civil Service salaries and manage its debts to oil companies.
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"It's a fair process," said Denise Berkley, an official with the union, the Civil Service Employees Association.
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There was no reckoning, no equivalent of de-Nazification of the civil service, judiciary or security forces.
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Bride Paola Podest and groom Carlos Ciuffardi said they were married in a civil service in 2010.
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My work, post-retirement, has focused on bringing veterans into all levels of government and civil service.
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Yet France has not arrested tens of thousands of people or purged 100,000 from its civil service.
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He championed civil-service reform, hobbling the "spoils system" with which he had been so closely associated.
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He has also announced enhanced voluntary redundancy packages in an attempt to trim the French civil service.
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This position is in the Excepted Service and does not confer rights to permanent Civil Service status.
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From the civil service Helen Bower, the Prime Minister's official spokeswoman, has been nominated for a CBE.
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It's no coincidence that the civil service act eventually passed in 1883 bore the name of Sen.
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The former civil service chief also confirmed he had been told that preparations for other worst-case Brexit scenarios including "rioting in the streets" — which he said in February the civil service was preparing for — were continuing to take place as the UK nears a cliff-edge Brexit.
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The party may prefer Carrie Lam, who has served as head of the civil service under Mr Leung.
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From the judiciary to the civil service to parliament, many in Iraq's upper echelons owe him their positions.
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Roosevelt helped pass the nation's first state-level Civil Service law in New York State later that year.
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The civil-service wage bill has risen by an average of more than 22% per year since 2009.
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Civil service reform is long overdue across the federal government, but particularly at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
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Fleming had been in contact with Keynes in the 1940s while he worked in the British civil service.
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Both countries maintain an expensive army, a large civil service and have spent billions to host Olympic games.
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Loyalty, for senior career federal civil service executives, is a complicated issue, often the source of ethical dilemmas.
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It's even less radical than American charter schools, since the private operators must use existing civil service teachers.
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What kind of civil service would make the federal government an attractive employer in a competitive job market?
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""Dominic Cummings has in the past called for a widespread restructuring of the way the civil service operates.
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In 2012, Lieutenant Dunnam noted, 110 of the 187 people who took the Civil Service test were white.
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It's long past time to extend the protection of the Federal Civil Service system to our valuable TSOs.
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No man is perfect but you had more class & civil service in your pinky than Trump' whole body.
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" On the other side a Forbes writer labelled it, "a common sense reform of the civil service system.
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The president, in my view, can then assert his executive prerogatives to remake civil service without congressional approval.
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State has more than 75,000 employees, with more than 133,000 Foreign Service and Civil Service officers scattered overseas.
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Soon after, an investigator from the Civil Service Commission confronted him about rumors pertaining to his personal life.
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Nader Nadery, the chairman of the Afghan civil service commission, brought up the morning's deadly attack in Ghazni.
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He gave Moss his "unequivocal highest recommendation" for immediate promotion to the senior ranks of the civil service.
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The civil service ministry, which is responsible for millions of public employees was merged into the labor ministry.
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And over many administrations, too many political appointees have found ways to burrow into the career Civil Service.
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Critics say Zimbabwe has a bloated civil service, which chews more than 90 percent of the national budget.
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He came from a farming family but earned a graduate degree in physics before entering the Civil Service.
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Metrics of trust in a range of governmental institutions — legislatures, courts, civil service — are falling across advanced democracies.
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Merit Systems Protection Board, an exceptionally complicated case about where Civil Service and discrimination claims may be filed.
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Kelley rose through the Civil Service at a time when professional and leadership opportunities for women were scarce.
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Her father, Charles, worked for the India Civil Service and was posted overseas for much of her childhood.
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Mr Macron, from a medical family, is a graduate of the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, the elite civil-service college.
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He befriended Theodore Roosevelt, then an ambitious civil-service commissioner, with whom he visited the National Zoo in Washington.
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We now see federal bureaucrats engaging in creative and persuasive acts of what we may call civil (service) disobedience.
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Altogether, the move left some two dozen career foreign and civil service officers scrambling for reassignments within the department.
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Bouvier followed the classic path of a French mandarin from prestigious Polytechnique engineering school to ENA civil service academy.
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And until the 1940s, women working in the civil service in the U.K. had to retire when they married.
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Sanitation workers must pass a civil service exam — which includes both a written and physical portion — before getting hired.
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Poor children won places in the civil service or the City of London, earning far more than their parents.
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Civil Service Minister Marylise Lebranchu offered little prospect of a significant pay rise after five years of salary caps.
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After years of cuts, the civil service is growing again, to tackle the challenge of disentangling Britain from Brussels.
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Career civil service reform would allow the next president to fire people that are — that are showing sheer incompetence.
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FIFTEEN YEARS ago this spring, students at France's elite postgraduate civil-service college were preparing to celebrate their graduation.
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Cases such as these spread public unease about the revolving door between business and politics and the civil service.
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They included tax cuts, tax exemptions for bonuses and a commitment to close the elite civil-service college, ENA.
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Others fear that Mr Macron has let slip his campaign promise to trim the size of the civil service.
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He didn't abolish elections, but he gerrymandered parliamentary districts and seized control of the civil service that administers elections.
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Sessions's influence could even extend beyond the political appointee layer of the federal government, into the civil service itself.
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The budget also trims civil service spending and introduces a tax on plastic packaging, intended to help the environment.
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It controls the home, defence and border-affairs ministries, as well as the country's security forces and civil service.
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In much of the rich world, says Agnès Audier of BCG, a consultancy, a civil-service recruitment crisis looms.
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I have asked the Cabinet Secretary to mobilize the Civil Service to deliver this outcome should it become necessary.
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The government on Monday postponed wage negotiations with civil service unions, who are planning a nationwide strike from Jan.
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I have asked the Cabinet Secretary to mobilise the Civil Service to deliver this outcome should it become necessary.
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Since coming to power in October PiS has strengthened its grip over the security services and the civil service.
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The government has long said Gulen's followers have used their affiliated schools to infiltrate the civil service and police.
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Parliament is holding up reform of Egypt's bloated civil service, despite Mr Sisi's pledge that nobody would be fired.
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Public sector workers were furious in November when Sisi issued a new civil service law that would cut jobs.
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I think we've lost a little bit of that in America, which leads to a loss of civil service.
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She said several career foreign and civil service officers were unceremoniously removed from their posts in the Trump era.
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His father, Benjamin, was a lawyer until the Depression hurt his practice and he took a Civil Service job.
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"What we need right now is designers in the Civil Service," members of Parliaments and "on boards of businesses."
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He passed a Civil Service test in 1985 and worked with troubled youth at a home in the Bronx.
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It kept absolute authority over the country's defenses, internal security and border control — and over the entire Civil Service.
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In Kentucky, young people are offered the chance to shadow experienced social workers and join the state's Civil Service.
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Lyndsey had risen quickly through the civil service, and worked in the ministry's main office building, in Central London.
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She has previously held senior civil service roles across the public and private sectors, including working at the Treasury.
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He studied at the elite Sciences Po university and ENA civil service academy, and served as an army officer.
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That's what nearly one million people did in China Sunday, taking the country's grueling civil service entrance exam, or Guokao.
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Some 1743,000 people have been either sacked or suspended from the civil service, military and police following the failed coup.
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The former head of Hong Kong's civil service will take up her post on July 1st, succeeding Leung Chun-ying.
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After a spell in banking he returned to the civil service in time to see the global financial system collapse.
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In 2011, Mr. Walker assured state workers that they did not need their unions because of Wisconsin's Civil Service rules.
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Authorities have also launched mass purges of state institutions, from the police and judiciary to academia and the civil service.
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Mrs Lam, who previously served as head of the civil service, will be the first woman to lead the territory.
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In October the government instituted a value-added tax, after years of consideration, and passed reforms to the civil service.
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Lam has said she comes from a working class background, but she has been in the civil service since 1980.
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That was partly by using state resources to outspend the opposition, often commandeering the civil service and sometimes the army.
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Productivity will soar as Prime Minister Rees-Mogg orders the civil service to take the lead in embracing the technology.
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The civil service has been purged, and the top jobs at several state-owned companies have gone to PiS supporters.
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In The Deep State , Jason Chaffetz reveals an entrenched leadership within the civil service that resists exposure, accountability, and responsibility.
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Of the roughly 222,21980 applicants for elite civil-service jobs in India each year, only about 543,254 make the grade.
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The government announced the 20 percent cut in mister salaries and the sharp cut to civil service benefits in September.
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They face restrictions on freedom of movement, limits on access to education and healthcare, and prohibition from civil service professions.
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It set up a civil-service agency in 2008, which has created a Chilean-style corps of public-sector managers.
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"Secretary's Zinke's comments yesterday betray a fundamental misunderstanding of the role of federal civil service," Cantwell said in a statement.
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This latest move will reopen a slew of positions for foreign and civil service officers throughout the 70,000-person agency.
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One example comes from the Whitehall study of almost 30,000 Civil Service workers in Britain over the past several decades.
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Instead of demagogic and demoralizing attacks on our federal workforce, why don't we reinvest in a 21st-century civil service?
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Owned by Iran's civil service pension fund, it is managed as a private company, according to an Iranian aviation expert.
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" While the Administration wrestled the civil service into submission, it began introducing Washington to Trump's "best and most serious people.
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When Conkling demanded the Custom House collector's job for a crony, Arthur not only refused, but sponsored Civil Service reforms.
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When she was raising her children, Ms. Spagnuolo had preached the importance of solid civil-service jobs, and they listened.
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Were any civil-service employees at federal agencies reassigned because of their perceived political beliefs or service under previous presidents?
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To the government's credit, an oncology unit has been opened in Al Hoceima and civil service jobs have been promised.
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Such a law should be buttressed by know-how and preparedness on the part of the civil service, Kurokawa said.
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So were the institutions that really distinguish the city: the independent courts, the widely respected civil service, the freewheeling press.
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Given budget cuts and computerization, today's Civil Service is reported to be the smallest since World War II, at 400,000.
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Excepted service appointments: This position is in the Excepted Service and does not confer rights to permanent Civil Service status.
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Federal, state and local government employees are not covered by the act but are often protected by civil service rules.
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Some 150,000 people were purged from the civil service, military and private sector and over 50,000 jailed, including German nationals.
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According to royal orders published by state news agency SPA, the ministers of media and civil service were also removed.
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Throughout imperial China, young men from humble backgrounds often became wealthy officials after passing through the civil-service examination system.
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Michael Wernick, the head of Canada's non-partisan civil service, on Thursday said he had contacted Wilson-Raybould on Dec.
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And once across that river, help this institution -- the foreign service and civil service -- be responsive to our elected leadership.
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People with dual citizenship won't be able to join political organizations, work in the Civil Service or stand for office.
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In just over two months, PiS has tightened its grip on the security services, the courts and the civil service.
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He's purged the civil service, military, and judiciary of his perceived enemies, with arrests totaling in the tens of thousands.
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The party has stuffed the civil service and the diplomatic corps with loyalists and has weakened the independence of the judiciary.
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She governed through her co-chiefs of staff, Nicholas Timothy and Fiona Hill, and frequently rode roughshod over the civil service.
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It has already placed cronies in the military, the civil service and state-owned companies, and is now politicising the judiciary.
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On his first day in office earlier this month, Tillerson commended the thousands of career diplomats and civil service officers worldwide.
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Successive Sri Lankan leaders have appointed central bank heads of their choice outside the monetary authority or civil service since 2004.
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Mrs Lam is a capable administrator who was formerly the head of the civil service, but she lacks the common touch.
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In particular, governments transitioned to a professional civil service, handing out desirable government jobs based on merit rather than partisan loyalty.
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It also complicates efforts by those believers to get military, police or civil service jobs, or even burial plots in cemeteries.
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Bouvier followed the classic path of a French mandarin from the prestigious Polytechnique engineering school to France's ENA civil service academy.
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He was a disaster as Brexit secretary, which he blames on the civil service and everybody else blames on his laziness.
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A graduate, like Mr Macron, of the elite civil-service training college, the Ecole Nationale d'Administration, Mr Le Maire is unapologetic.
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Apex Council, which represents all civil service unions, will meet to plan its next move, its deputy chairman Thomas Muzondo said.
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Similarly, in the United States, the civil service, which scholars understand as a bulwark against autocracy, is protected largely by tradition.
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That means the real question of the vindictive presidency is this:Would the civil service be willing to go along with it?
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These jobs were already of declining importance in the early 20th century, as the civil service came to dominate federal employment.
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The city's civil service law requires that the city file charges alleging administrative violations within 18 months of the alleged wrongdoing.
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Although a majority Muslim country, Turkey is officially secular and headscarves were banned for decades in the civil service and universities.
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Working up the ladder in the army and civil service, Gulen supporters helped other members of the movement join their ranks.
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And as governments and aid donors seek to cut graft, the original, meritocratic aim of civil-service exams seems increasingly relevant.
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The best-known proponent of a new-model, meritocratic civil service was Max Weber, a German sociologist who died in 503.
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They found that corruption across 52 countries was correlated with neither civil-service pay levels nor whether jobs were for life.
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In his new position he is in charge of the day-to-day running of the 33,000-strong EU civil service.
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And it's turned the civil service into the last line of defense for liberals facing a Republican Congress and White House.
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Fast-forward a century and a half later, and new presidents don't get to choose who makes up the civil service.
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In China meritocratic exams have been revered since imperial times, when any man could sit them to enter the civil service.
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Great Britain – ever ready to boast stable politics and a faultless, often-called "Rolls Royce" civil service – is in a mess.
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Many Japanese and much of the civil service (not to mention the party itself) see it as synonymous with the state.
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After he was terminated from the police department, DeShazer appealed his firing to the city's Civil Service Commission, according to Denver7.
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Since the failed coup, more than 150,000 people have been sacked or suspended from the civil service, private sector and military.
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The APA requires the civil service to combine its own professionalism with outside expertise and to engage in meaningful public participation.
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The city was plunged further into chaos as workers from across about 20 sectors, including the civil service, went on strike.
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This entire structure was based on the premise that a career civil service should be responsive, politically-neutral and professionally competent.
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Teddy Roosevelt probably came to the presidency with most experience: police commissioner, Civil Service commissioner, state legislator, governor, vice president, president.
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The lira has since recovered, but some investors have voiced concern about the widening crackdown on the judiciary and civil service.
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They also want the full veil banned at schools, universities, in the civil service and at court for judges and witnesses.
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Photographer Daniel Schumann first went to St. Francis Hospice near Dusseldorf, Germany, in order to fulfill the country's civil service requirement.
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An amended Civil Service law eliminated merit-based appointments for high-ranking officials, permitting them to be named by the government.
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A juicy boss-from-hell story illuminates the tensions between Britain's radical new government and its solicitous but unyielding civil service.
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"I think both sides agree it was a long time coming," said Bill Lacey, director of Civil Service for the carpenters.
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In the absence of a functioning Civil Service, ministries were occupied rather than run by generals, and their friends and relatives.
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In January, the parliament rejected a civil-service law that had been supported by Sisi, who wanted to reduce the bureaucracy.
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With a one-seat majority in parliament, Mitsotakis pushed for spending cuts, reforms to the civil service and privatizing urban transport.
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They are the Civil Service Retirement and Disability Fund and the Postal Service Retiree Health Benefits Fund, according to the letter.
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This focus on women came on the tail of a large shift in the gender composition of the civil service sector that occurred during the New Deal and World War II. By 1947, about 45 percent of federal civil service employees working in Washington, DC, were women, making it the most integrated employment sector of the time.
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Wisconsin citizens thought they had abandoned the spoils system and patronage corruption a century ago when Civil Service was championed by Gov.
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When I first met Sir Ivan, he was Tony Blair's principal private secretary: the civil service head of the prime minister's office.
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I won&apost blame the unions and I won&apost blame civil service but let&aposs assume they had a little blame.
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Other German officials place their faith in America's institutions—Congress, the civil service, the military—to restrain the new commander-in-chief.
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In 1905, Wisconsin became the third state to enact Civil Service reform, helping establish it as a national model for clean government.
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Last month the head of the civil service ordered senior officials to identify saboteurs loyal to the old regime in their departments.
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Notably, the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, forbids interfering with or denying federal employees a right to furnish information to lawmakers.
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Yet the Civil Service laws he and others created marked the beginning of a shift toward a fairer, less corrupt public realm.
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Legislation spelling out the plans will be ready by the start of next year, after consultation with civil service unions, Philippe said.
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He recently signed an overhaul of the state Civil Service rules that will end some seniority protections and exams for job applicants.
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Less than 4% of those who return after studying abroad enter the civil service, according to the survey by CCG and Zhaopin.
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More than 150,7003 people in the civil service, police, military and private sector have been sacked or suspended and some 50,000 jailed.
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They were expelled from universities, the civil service and other professions, their property was confiscated and many were forced into labor camps.
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He has peppered his inner circle with retired generals and is considering reserving some jobs in the civil service jobs for soldiers.
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"It was not the question (of) firing people from civil service in order to cut costs and replace with digital," Kaljulaid said.
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Political appointees wait out the Republican administration by "burrowing" into the civil service, returning to the nonprofits, or just ending the pretense.
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This will require converting the many jobs currently performed by conscripts — farming, construction, teaching — into formal civil-service or private-sector positions.
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He wants to raise the minimum wage, currently about 1,150 euros a month, by 10 percent and raise civil service salaries too.
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I have worked in the federal government and saw the debilitating effects of our antiquated civil service system on morale and results.
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Yes, there is a phenomenon that is known inside the Beltway as burrowing, which involves transferring political appointees into the civil service.
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The provisions in question curtailed civil service protections and made it easier for employers to fire workers and weaken their union representation.
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To have the government and civil service that is now determinedly endeavoring to make sure that we are prepared is really important.
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Beijing had already brought about 50,000 people into Hong Kong to work in all sectors of life — the civil service, the professions.
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Nonpolitical members of the SES average 18 years in the federal government before rising to this top echelon of the civil service.
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Now Donovan has appealed the FDNY decision to the city's Civil Service Commission, and expects a decision by the end of July.
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An attorney general's opinion at the time of original civil service reform stated that Congress could not so restrict the president's authority.
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Most important, this shutdown undoubtedly will reinforce a discouraging trend: More and more workers are leaving the civil service and diplomatic corps.
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Now, that employee might have a civil service–related claim, but she's not gonna have a personal tort claim against President Trump.
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One Hamas official said they would negotiate to slim down the bloated civil service, cutting up to 40,000 of the 200,000 jobs.
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Most probation officers spend their civil service careers balancing the protection of the community with assisting probationers lead law-abiding productive lives.
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Because political appointees are not subject to civil service rules, he added, there was one advantage if they did not meet expectations.
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He has scaled back wealth taxes, pressed for curbs on social housing aid, and cutting civil service numbers is in his sights.
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On Day 61, the Nazis organized a nationwide boycott of Jewish businesses, and six days later purged the civil service of Jews.
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While there are other tools, they are too indirect or attenuated to realistically hold a non-officer in the civil service accountable.
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The case, about where Civil Service and discrimination claims may be filed, was "unbelievably complicated," as Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. noted.
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Haspel has received several awards in her career, including the Presidential Rank Award -- the most prestigious award in the federal civil service.
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In 2011, he removed a ban on head scarves in universities, and in 2013, scrapped a similar ban in the civil service.
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In 2013, the Massachusetts Civil Service Commission reinstated six of those officers after determining that the hair testing method used was unreliable.
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They want an end to renewable contracts in favor of permanent jobs that offer civil service benefits, including a better retirement pension.
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In the crackdown following the coup, some 100,000 people in the police, civil service, military and judiciary have been sacked or suspended.
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Heightened security after the terrorist attacks in France will add pressure not to include police and hospital workers in Civil Service reductions.
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On the other side, civil service rules and the collective bargaining agreement combine to present almost insurmountable obstacles to firing any employee.
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The nation's leadership in both parties and the Civil Service had embroiled the country in endless wars and a string of humiliations.
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Today there are Dalit poets, doctors, civil service officers, engineers, and even a Dalit president, though it is mostly a ceremonial post.
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He wanted to dispel the innuendo, but when he asked for information from the Civil Service Commission, the agency denied his request.
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He added that the trainees are Civil Service employees who have rights under state law that allow them to challenge the terminations.
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That means the real question of the vindictive presidency is this: Would the civil service be willing to go along with it?
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Under the new regulations, those positions can now also be filled by the government and given to people outside the civil service.
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Measures already legislated for (including civil service reform and the introduction of VAT), together with the IMF programme, provide a stronger policy anchor.
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"We are not engaging in FGM and that's it, but the civil service law, the value added tax law and more," she added.
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In January, for example, the UK government announced it would be setting up a civil service unit to combat state-led disinformation campaigns.
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Meanwhile, for over 100 years, the hallmark of our federal civil service has been its political independence from those in the White House.
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As a probationary officer, he cannot appeal his firing and will not be afforded civil service protections following his termination, according to Ivey.
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"Zhou's behaviour is despicable," seethes one writer about a civil-service examiner caught up in a bribery case in Zhaotong city, Yunnan province.
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Under Bera's bill, at least 70 percent of ambassador appointments would be required to come from career foreign service and civil service ranks.
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Can the top ranks of the civil service modernise the bureaucracy, so that everything it does drives Hong Kong towards a better future?
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But China's political system, including the way its civil service is run, sets it apart from countries such as Japan or South Korea.
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Education reform, not to mention a looming battle over civil-service numbers, could be the beginning of a much trickier period for him.
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A bill of 3.9 billion cedis for civil service salaries constituted the largest slice of the $2.75 billion total, according to the document.
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It has reduced the public broadcaster to a propaganda organ, packed the civil service with loyalists and purged much of the army's leadership.
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Why it matters: Labor activists say moving federal employees closer to the White House would signal a "dangerous" politicization of the civil service.
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The scope of the crackdown, which started in the civil service and then spread to the private sector, has worried Turkey's Western allies.
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First, because it exacerbates the tensions between the commission's two roles (it is a sort of hybrid between an executive and civil service).
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They deny a role in the attempt to oust President Tayyip Erdogan, which led to a purge of the military and civil service.
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The party's newly-elected leader, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, is a liberal reformer known for cutting civil-service jobs when he was a government minister.
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More than 100,000 people have been sacked or suspended in the civil service and the private sector since the abortive July 15 putsch.
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"We need to be careful here and ensure all our staff are following this guidance which reflects the Civil Service Code," it added.
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The leaked document suggested May was trying to control major Brexit questions, senior ministers were divided and the civil service was in turmoil.
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It has spent its first two months in power tightening its grip over the security services, the constitutional tribunal and the civil service.
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The British became the biggest beneficiaries because it was an extremely good career to be in either the army or the civil service.
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Macron's gradual deregulation measures are likely to be welcomed by global financial markets, as are cuts in state expenditure and the civil service.
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Laws and regulations regarding civil service employees protect them from political interference and attempts to punish them for their beliefs, among other protections.
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As head of the civil service before and (for nearly four years) after the handover, Mrs Chan was an embodiment of the guarantees.
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Correction: The numbers comparing average personnel costs in the civil service and in large and medium-sized firms were corrected on September 16th.
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After assuming power, he initially cracked down on widespread petty corruption and cleaned up the civil service, which had functioned largely on bribes.
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Truman issued an order to screen all federal civil-service employees to assure their loyalty and asked the F.B.I. to conduct background checks.
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"I have read your book and I have come to help," Theodore Roosevelt, New York City's young civil service commissioner, wrote to Riis.
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We must strengthen and build on the merit system principles that have served as the foundation of our civil service - not weaken them.
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However security concerns and a wide-ranging crackdown on alleged Gulen followers in the civil service and army are seen hurting Turkey's economy.
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This administration seems hellbent on replacing a civil service that works for all taxpayers with a political service that serves at its whim.
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But advocates of civil service reform say the current system makes it almost impossible to fire a federal employee, even for gross misconduct.
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Macpherson said Rogers was a "huge loss" and he couldn't understand the "wilful and total destruction of EU expertise" in the civil service.
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But Mr. Powell said that to his surprise, the civil service showed an almost preternatural capacity to fall in behind its new masters.
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Declaring that "Holland is sick," he pruned spending and persuaded civil service unions to trade wage and benefit demands for a shorter workweek.
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If the officers disagree with whatever decisions the panel makes, they can file an appeal with a municipal fire and civil service board.
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In the absence of a government, it is difficult for the civil service to be held accountable unless someone takes it to court.
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A generation of young foreign and civil service officers had been inspired by her work in service to both Republican and Democratic administrations.
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Rathke said Pompeo's close relationship to Trump might improve the outlook within the department and among the demoralized foreign and civil service staff.
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Morocco has come under pressure from international lenders to trim the civil service wage bill and strengthen the efficiency of the public sector.
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Since his inauguration, a critical free press, independent judiciary, patriotic Civil Service and robust social movements have placed significant constraints on Trump's actions.
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A look at history shows the civil service was a hardfought innovation that prevented the United States from continuing down a dangerous path.
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We must ensure a robust and supported career civil service and diplomatic corps in order to further an effective national security strategy. 4.
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His purge of the civil service and the army has left a huge vacuum that cannot be filled by his own faction alone.
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His promise to cut civil service jobs "was an appeal to the provincial bourgeoisie, which turned out very heavily for him," Goldhammer says.
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Standing against the Stalwarts were the "Half-Breeds," Republicans who agreed with Democratic demands for civil service reforms and a professionalized federal bureaucracy.
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Mrs Lam can always recruit members of the civil service into political posts, but that drains a respected service of competent and experienced administrators.
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He has plans to reform the civil service; he would replace ageing bureaucrats with energetic younger ones and set up a new training school.
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The resulting crackdown on the military, police and civil service has driven at least 60,000 from their jobs, Radio Free Europe estimated this week.
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On a positive note, my return coincided with a major initiative in my country to reform the civil-service sector through merit-based hiring.
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Northern Ireland's civil service has warned a no deal could cause the loss of 40,000 jobs or almost 5 percent of the total workforce.
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The Senate was willing to comply, but the House insisted on bigger defense cuts and on pay increases for itself and the civil service.
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The report looked at 36,000 job descriptions posted in the last few years, including 2017 and 2018 listings for civil service and government jobs.
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The government is aware of the issue but struggling to eradicate it, said Gilbert Bawara, Togo's minister of civil service, labor and administrative reforms.
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According to a government poll conducted in 2014, 70% of respondents said they had no trust in either the civil service or the courts.
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Many public policy experts believe that Wisconsin's Civil Service system would benefit from modernizing reforms, as it did in the 1990s under Republican Gov.
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And, if all goes well, civil service reforms will ensure that taxpayers' limited resources are being used to employ only the best and brightest.
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Aid agencies paid salaries 20 times higher than the Afghan civil service, prompting the best officials to quit to work as drivers and interpreters.
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Britain's withdrawal from its empire in the 1940s-60s required its civil service to negotiate exits from dozens of different territories, often in months.
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Using public funding to employ contractors directly has the additional benefit of requiring less civil service expertise, which has eroded since the late 2000s.
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As it is, Mr Macron acknowledged that he may not meet his campaign promise to trim 120,000 jobs from the mighty French civil service.
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Since a attempted putsch in July, authorities have detained or dismissed more 125,000 people in the police, judiciary and civil service and arrested 36,000.
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The bride's father retired as a chief master sergeant in the Air Force and worked for the United States Civil Service Commission in Washington.
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DOMINIC CUMMINGS: Yes, and it bites every day with the collision between the EU and parliamentary government, common law and our civil service administration.
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Lam, 59, has served as the city's chief secretary since 2012 and is known for her no-nonsense approach to overseeing the civil service.
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Turkey has sacked or suspended more than 125,000 officials in the military, civil service, judiciary and elsewhere since a failed coup attempt in July.
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Tax revenue growth will be strong and the civil service law (approved by parliament in October) will continue to restrain public-sector wage growth.
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A spokesman at Britain's interior ministry declined to comment on the U.N. report, citing restrictions on the civil service during an election campaign period.
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"I think it's also important to stress that there's a very capable diplomatic corps and civil service corps within the State Department," he said.
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Civil service was designed as a system of neutral hiring; it defanged the spoils system by eliminating political hiring of the rank-and-file.
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Philip K. Howard is chair of the nonpartisan reform group Common Good and has advised political leaders of both parties on civil service reform.
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