All posts by Catherine Early

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  Canadian Senate committee calls for Phoenix error resolution targets

  More should be done to support civil service employees who are waiting to have their pay problems resolved following the troubled rollout of the Phoenix pay system, a Senate report

  • Posted August 5, 2018
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  US agency personnel chief investigated for sexual harassment

  The top official in charge of personnel at the US government’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is under investigation for sexual harassment, including allegations that he repeatedly hired women as

  • Posted August 2, 2018
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  Code of conduct introduced to prevent sexual harassment in Cyprus

  Guidance on how to prevent and deal with sexual harassment in the Cypriot civil service has been published by the country’s ombudswoman. The Commissioner for Administration for Protection of Human

  • Posted July 30, 2018
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  Unions slam UK’s 1980s civil service blacklist

  Trade unionists are to write to the UK Cabinet Office to ask whether it continues to keep a blacklist of civil servants, following revelations about a covert 1980s exercise which

  • Posted July 29, 2018
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  Singapore health authority hit by massive cyber attack

  Security has been stepped up on government IT systems following a major cyber attack on Singapore’s Ministry of Health which compromised the data security of around 1.5 million patients, including

  • Posted July 26, 2018
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  Affordable renewable electricity has arrived: what next?

  Last year, global investment and installation in renewable electricity supplies overtook their fossil fuel predecessors. But as electricity market policy makers celebrate, their colleagues across fields such as planning, transport

  • Posted July 17, 2018
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  Indonesian regional heads call for end to civil service recruitment freeze

  Regional political leaders in Indonesia have called for president Joko Widodo to lift a moratorium on the recruitment of civil servants. The moratorium came into effect on 1 January 2015

  • Posted July 16, 2018
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  Thousands of civil servants sacked in Turkey

  More than 18,000 Turkish public employees have been dismissed by a government decree, ahead of the inauguration of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a reshaped presidential role with significant new powers. Erdoğan,

  • Posted July 12, 2018
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  Court ruling: key Northern Ireland decisions must await new power-sharing executive

  Civil servants in Northern Ireland did not have the power to grant planning permission for the construction of an incinerator by council waste management coalition arc21, the Court of Appeal

  • Posted July 11, 2018
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  Contributory pensions introduced for civil servants in Kenya and the Bahamas

  Governments in Kenya and the Bahamas have introduced contributory pension schemes for civil servants. In Kenya, civil servants, teachers and members of the armed forces will pay 7.5% of their

  • Posted July 6, 2018
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