All posts by Catherine Early

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  New Zealand plans to build wellbeing into budget decisions

  The public sector needs to focus more strongly on improving the current and future health of people and the environment, the government of New Zealand has said. The country’s Treasury

  • Posted October 3, 2018
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  Northern Ireland’s biggest party broke the law in appointing special advisers, inquiry hears

  Northern Ireland’s leading loyalist party routinely broke the law in how it appointed ministerial special advisors, a public inquiry has heard. The inquiry was set up last year to examine

  • Posted October 1, 2018
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  Zimbabwe reshuffle sees Mugabe loyalists purged

  Zimbabwe president Emmerson Mnangagwa has pushed out many long-serving senior civil servants, and appointed 18 new permanent secretaries in a wide-ranging reshuffle. Ousted officials include Willard Manungo, the most senior

  • Posted September 21, 2018
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  Canadian departments told to update harassment rules

  Government departments in Canada will have to make changes to rules and policies on harassment by next spring, following a review of the issue by the country’s top civil servant.

  • Posted September 19, 2018
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  Malaysian civil service needs whistleblowing policy, says former law chief

  A former Malaysian chief justice has called on the country’s government to introduce a whistleblowing policy for the civil service. Speaking at an event held by the National Institute of

  • Posted September 17, 2018
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  US departments could disobey judge’s ruling on Trump executive order

  Questions have been raised over whether US government departments will obey a judge’s ruling overturning anti-union executive orders issued by president Donald Trump. Three executive orders were signed by Trump at the

  • Posted August 30, 2018
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  Kuwait cancels contracts for foreign civil servants

  Work contracts for more than 3,000 non-Kuwaitis serving in the public sector have been cancelled, in a bid to replace expatriates with nationals in the service. The announcement was made

  • Posted August 29, 2018
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  New Pakistan prime minister pledges civil service reform

  Government departments that perform well will be awarded with bonuses, while those that do not will be penalised, Imran Khan, Pakistan’s new prime minister has said. Khan made the comments

  • Posted August 27, 2018
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  Third of civil servants struggling to justify wealth in corruption probe

  Around 30% of Kenyan civil servants have been unable to explain the source of their wealth in an audit ordered by the government. The figure was revealed by head of

  • Posted August 22, 2018
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  E-government progress hampered by digital divide, UN report finds

  Denmark, Australia and South Korea have come top in a biennial United Nations survey of countries’ progress in implementing e-government. The survey, by the UN Department of Economic and Social

  • Posted August 6, 2018
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