All posts tagged "Employment"

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  With crisis comes opportunity: economic sustainability and the argument for going green

  Governments around the world have had no choice but to roll out vast stimulus packages in a bid to keep economies afloat during the coronavirus crisis. At a recent GGF

  • Posted September 27, 2020
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  Reset your economy: the power of green stimulus packages

  Around the world, governments are using stimulus packages to jump-start business growth. Catherine Early explores the potential of ‘green recovery’ investments, designed to reshape as well as rebuild national economies

  • Posted July 17, 2020
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  UK civil service to expand ex-offender recruitment programme

  The UK’s Civil Service Commission chief executive, Peter Lawrence, has appealed to colleagues to join a scheme that finds work for ex-prisoners in the civil service. In a blog post

  • Posted September 15, 2019
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  Brazilian department urges president-elect to curb civil service salaries

  Salaries of government workers should be brought into line with those of the private sector, according to an official report handed to the president-elect of Brazil. The right-wing former army

  • Posted November 20, 2018
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  Auditor brands Canada’s Phoenix pay system an ‘incomprehensible failure’

  Canada’s auditor general has branded the Phoenix pay system an “incomprehensible failure” that is a symptom of a “much deeper cultural issue” within the federal government. Michael Ferguson called on

  • Posted June 6, 2018
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  The UK chancellor thinks that disability hampers productivity – but employers can solve that

  When chancellor Philip Hammond suggested that Britain’s falling productivity is linked to rising rates of disability in the workforce, says Nasser Siabi, he misunderstands how disability works – and misses

  • Posted December 15, 2017
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  Canadian unions call for Phoenix pay system to be ditched

  A civil service union has called on the Canadian federal government to scrap its troubled Phoenix pay system and build a replacement in-house. The call from the Professional Institute of

  • Posted November 16, 2017
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  China’s civil service exams attract 1.6m entrants

  China’s national civil service exam – or guokao – is set to be fiercely contested this year, after 1.56m job seekers registered by the deadline of Wednesday 8 November. Of

  • Posted November 13, 2017
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  Hong Kong to recruit over 5,000 civil servants

  Hong Kong chief executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor has pledged to increase the number of civil servants in the territory by three per cent during the next financial year. More

  • Posted October 30, 2017
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  Australian civil service chiefs in major reshuffle

  The departure of two departmental heads has led to a significant reshuffle at the top of the civil service in Australia, with most departments getting new bosses. The shake-up was

  • Posted September 15, 2017
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