All posts tagged "impartiality"
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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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US unions urge Congress to protect federal staff from Trump bid to strip employment protections
Congressional leaders have been urged to pass a bill that would block future governments from resurrecting a Trump-era bid to strip career federal employees of their civil service protections, in
- Posted November 1, 2022
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Internal Revenue Service impartiality defended in row over audits of top FBI officials fired under Trump
Internal Revenue Service employees are likely to have acted properly when they performed in-depth tax audits on two former FBI leaders demonised by former president Donald Trump, the Professional Managers
- Posted July 19, 2022
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Black comedy of errors: how the UK accidentally left the Single Market, and other Brexit stories
Newly published interviews with key figures involved in Brexit reveal how a lack of expertise led to major mistakes – and suggest that the UK government deliberately built an inexperienced
- Posted February 16, 2021
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‘An iconoclastic government’: former DEXEU chief Philip Rycroft on threats to the UK and its democracy
Philip Rycroft ran both the UK’s Brexit department, and Whitehall’s relations with the devolved governments. Now the former permanent secretary is speaking out: the Johnson government, he says, is ‘challenging
- Posted October 16, 2020
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Australian civil servant quits in censorship protest
An Australian civil servant has quit his job as a policy officer at the industry department after being threatened with the sack if he didn’t delete a blog post on
- Posted August 31, 2020
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Crisis response: an interview with Sir Suma Chakrabarti
Suma Chakrabarti, the former UK permanent secretary and EBRD chief, sees opportunities as well as risks amidst the COVID crisis; but western governments, he warns, are fumbling their response. Matt
- Posted August 27, 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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May and Johnson failed to protect civil servants from Brexit-related attacks, says think tank
UK PMs Theresa May and Boris Johnson failed to defend civil servants whose impartiality was called into question during the Brexit upheaval of the last four years, an investigation has
- Posted May 18, 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