All posts tagged "Employment"

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  Indian officials challenge civil service leadership review

  India’s elite Indian Administrative Service (IAS) has come under attack from other branches of the government services, many of which are unhappy with its leadership of a new committee established

  • Posted October 17, 2016
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  US staff engagement creeps up, despite complaints over performance management

  Employee engagement in the US federal government has improved slightly in the past year, but staff still complain of a lack of effective performance management, according to the annual staff survey.

  • Posted October 12, 2016
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  Canadian departmental chiefs handed mental health brief

  The Canadian government has launched a new strategy to tackle workplace mental health problems, giving departmental chiefs responsibility for addressing a major cause of long-term sick leave. The workplace mental

  • Posted October 6, 2016
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  UK reforms Fast Stream tests to broaden intake

  The UK civil service graduate scheme has scrapped its online verbal and numerical reasoning tests because they have been shown to disadvantage poorer applicants. Instead, the initial application process for

  • Posted October 5, 2016
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  UK civil service ‘going backwards’ on diversity, survey finds

  New research suggests that ethnic minority representation among the UK’s top civil servants has declined, despite efforts at the highest level to address the issue. The survey by executive search

  • Posted September 26, 2016
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  Australia’s finance department secretary Jane Halton resigns

  The secretary of Australia’s finance department, Jane Halton, the first woman to run an Australian federal-level central agency, has announced her resignation. Halton was appointed to the position in 2014,

  • Posted September 16, 2016
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  Canadian unions fight new PM Trudeau on employment reforms

  Canada’s largest public sector union has warned of a “make-it-or-break-it” moment for negotiations with the country’s Liberal government over contracts for federal government workers. Talks are resuming this week between

  • Posted September 13, 2016
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  UK minister signals rethink on ‘guided distribution’ performance management

  The use of ‘guided distribution’ in civil service performance management – introduced just two years ago – is being reviewed, a minister has told the UK’s Parliament. In a written statement to

  • Posted September 7, 2016
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  WANTED: Science professional ‘with business acumen’ to fill £300,000 a year civil service post

  The British government is looking for an established science professional with “significant commercial acumen” and a “deep understanding of change management” to lead its new research and innovation body in

  • Posted September 5, 2016
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  New executive order to give US departments greater power to scrutinise federal contractors

  US government departments will be given greater powers to ensure federal contractors comply with laws that protect their workers’ safety, wages and civil rights, under new regulations coming into force

  • Posted September 1, 2016
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