All posts tagged "politicisation"

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  UK publishes new generative AI guidance for civil servants; Gender equity alliance launched at Davos: news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. UK publishes new generative AI guidance for civil servants The UK government’s Central Digital and

  • Posted January 25, 2024
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  Biden warns of ‘dangers’ of removing civil service protections from US federal officials

  US president Joe Biden has warned that Republican plans to turn more civil service jobs into political appointments are part of a “dangerous” political movement in America. Speaking in Arizona

  • Posted October 5, 2023
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  Officials warn UK may miss climate funding pledge; Janice Charette calls for ‘wellness’ focus: policy & delivery news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s digest of the news you need to know but might have missed. UK will damage global standing if it fails to meet £11.6bn climate pledge, officials warn

  • Posted July 6, 2023
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  US lawmakers vote to shield feds from Trump threat to make them more easily fireable if re-elected

  The House of Representatives has passed legislation that would stop future presidents from stripping federal employees of civil service protections without Congressional approval. The ‘Preventing a Patronage System’ bill cleared

  • Posted September 21, 2022
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  ‘Bureaucrats need to be fireable’: Republican lawmakers propose stripping US federal officials of employment protections

  A group of US lawmakers from the Republican Party have introduced a bill that would make it easier for the president to remove a host of nonpartisan officials from their

  • Posted August 1, 2022
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  Trump aides plan federal staff purge in event of 2024 re-election

  Aides of ex-US president Donald Trump are working on plans that would enable him to fire thousands of career civil servants and replace them with political appointees if he were

  • Posted July 25, 2022
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  About turn: what Biden’s presidency means for federal staff

  As Donald Trump faces his last day in the White House, US civil servants are preparing for a new administration and a very different style of government. We ask three

  • Posted January 19, 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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  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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