All posts tagged "appointments"

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  UK officials offered one-off payment after strikes; Zimbabwe bans civil servants from political candidacy: management & workforce news in brief

  UK civil servants offered one-off payment to prevent strike action UK civil servants could receive a one-off payment of £1,500 (US$1,868) this year as part of an effort by government

  • Posted June 8, 2023
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  UK to upskill civil servants in data science; Australia to review public sector appointments: policy & delivery news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. UK cabinet secretary launches Evidence House data science initiative Simon Case, the UK government’s

  • Posted February 9, 2023
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  Significant change at the top of the Canadian public service

  Canadian prime minister Justin Trudeau has announced 18 changes in the senior ranks of the public service, with four top-rank officials among those switching departments. The moves of deputy ministers

  • Posted January 12, 2022
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  ‘Self-regulation has failed’: former UK Treasury chief backs civil service appointment overhaul

  The former head of the UK Treasury has backed calls for greater external oversight of civil service appointments, warning that the current system of allowing departments to regulate their own

  • Posted November 15, 2021
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  Friends in NED: why the UK government needs independent non-executive directors

  Growing allegations of cronyism have raised questions about non-executive directors’ influence and put pressure on the UK government to be more transparent about their appointment. Jack Aldane hears from current

  • Posted October 13, 2021
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  All change at the UK’s Civil Service Commission

  Four new civil service commissioners have been appointed to the independent statutory body that oversees appointments to the UK civil service, and a fifth is being sought to replace outgoing

  • Posted October 5, 2021
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  Who is William Shawcross, the government’s pick for public appointments commissioner?

  In the CVs of senior regulators, it’s not par for the course to see books reporting on the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and biographies of figures including

  • Posted August 6, 2021
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  Two top US officials serving illegally, accountability office rules

  Two top-ranking homeland security officials are serving illegally, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has said. The GAO believes that flaws in the way successions were handled mean that the

  • Posted August 19, 2020
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  OPM obstructive in politicised hiring probe, says investigator

  The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has repeatedly failed to comply with record requests during an investigation into the alleged politicisation of appointments, its inspector general has said. In a

  • Posted July 28, 2020
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  UK PM’s chief adviser ‘getting in the way’ of good government, says union chief

  The behaviour of UK PM Boris Johnson’s chief adviser is harming departments’ ability to deliver the government’s objectives, FDA general secretary Dave Penman has told Global Government Forum. “What’s been

  • Posted February 21, 2020
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