All posts by Mia Hunt

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  White House in continued push to break up central HR office

  A US watchdog has reported that the Trump administration’s planned merger between the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and General Services Administration (GSA) has not been abandoned, despite Congress blocking

  • Posted December 10, 2019
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  Senior civil servants to be replaced by AI, says Indonesia’s president

  In a surprise announcement, Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo has ordered government agencies to replace top civil servants with artificial intelligence (AI) during 2020. The president announced the decision to a

  • Posted December 5, 2019
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  Australian Public Service ‘consistently struggles’ with reform, staff survey finds

  As the Australian Public Service (APS) gears up for major reforms following an independent review into its performance, an official workforce survey has revealed civil servants’ concerns over the APS’s

  • Posted December 4, 2019
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  Trump attacks raise concern about whistleblower protections

  US president Donald Trump and his allies have made repeated attacks on the whistleblower whose complaint led to the impeachment inquiry, prompting intelligence agency chiefs to reaffirm their commitment to

  • Posted December 3, 2019
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  US agencies tackle employees’ opioid use

  Several US government agencies are implementing new policies that would enable them to keep tabs on their employees’ opioid use, even in cases where the painkillers are prescribed legally. Government

  • Posted December 3, 2019
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  Singapore government pledges to beef up data security after breaches

  The Singapore government is to establish a new Data Security Office and implement a number of measures to better safeguard citizen information, following a series of serious data leaks.  

  • Posted December 2, 2019
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  Australian court case reveals flaws in ‘robo-debt’ benefits programme

  The Australian federal government has conceded, in a landmark court case, that failings in the country’s controversial ‘robo-debt’ programme led it to unlawfully demand that citizens repay non-existent debts. The

  • Posted November 28, 2019
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  New Zealand on the verge of major public service reform

  A new bill brought to New Zealand’s parliament is to pave the way for the “most significant change in the public service in 30 years”, enabling government to more effectively

  • Posted November 27, 2019
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  UK education department faces sanction over data protection breaches

  The UK Department for Education (DfE) is facing disciplinary action for what a watchdog has called “wide ranging and serious concerns” over data protection breaches. Privacy regulator the Information Commissioner’s

  • Posted November 27, 2019
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  OPM urges US federal agencies to hire military spouses and ex-prisoners

  The US government aims to increase diversity within the federal workforce by encouraging human capital officers to take full advantage of two existing hiring programmes that make it easier for

  • Posted November 26, 2019
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