All posts tagged "Dave Penman"

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  Third of UK officials looking for jobs outside civil service, FDA survey finds

  Low and stagnant pay is pushing a large number of civil servants to eye alternative career paths, a new survey by the FDA union has revealed. The trade union’s annual

  • Posted November 29, 2023
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  UK government plans to set civil service return-to-work deadlines

  The UK Cabinet Office may impose deadlines for civil servants to return to Whitehall after months of tensions over remote working arrangements between ministers and unions. The cabinet secretary, Simon

  • Posted October 12, 2021
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  FDA union chief fires back at criticisms of remote-working UK civil servants

  The general secretary of the FDA union Dave Penman has hit back at Conservative party co-chairman Oliver Dowden for criticising civil servants who work from home. Dowden said earlier this

  • Posted October 6, 2021
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  Union boss attacks ‘dysfunctional’ failure to appoint Northern Ireland chief

  The failure of Northern Ireland’s first and deputy first minister to appoint the next head of the province’s civil service is an “abdication of responsibility”, union boss Dave Penman has

  • Posted October 16, 2020
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  UK unions resist ‘back to work’ push

  UK civil service unions are challenging the government’s policy of pulling home-working staff back into their offices, with leaders suggesting that it is more interested in restoring city centre economies

  • Posted July 29, 2020
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  UK Cabinet secretary ousted as fears grow over politicisation of the civil service

  Sir Mark Sedwill, who has served as Cabinet secretary and head of the UK civil service since 2018, and national security adviser (NSA) since 2017, is to stand down in

  • Posted June 29, 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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  FDA union chief slams government’s approach to civil service reform

  The UK civil service reforms being trailed by Tory advisers risk undermining government’s effectiveness while creating “huge destabilisation” at the top of the civil service, the head of the civil

  • Posted January 7, 2020
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  Cummings blog challenged by top Whitehall figures

  Top Whitehall figures – including a former cabinet secretary, a former civil service commissioner and a former head of the civil service, plus the head of the senior civil servants’

  • Posted January 6, 2020
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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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