All posts tagged "senior public servants"

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  Capability-based pay to be introduced under UK civil service reform plans

  All senior appointments to the UK civil service will be open to public competition and capability-based pay will be introduced, under the government’s new reform programme announced today. Alongside transforming

  • Posted June 15, 2021
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  Irish government commission calls for new pay review body

  Ireland’s Public Service Pay Commission has called for the re-establishment of a dedicated review body to examine pay in the civil and public service, after a government report found that

  • Posted October 25, 2019
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  Courting capability, part 2: the business of government

  There are many ways to bring private sector skills into government beyond the mainstream routes of recruitment and secondment. James Johns explores how countries have injected business expertise into departmental

  • Posted July 4, 2018
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  Electing women can boost gender equality in both appointments and policies, research finds

  Where women win election into local government roles with the power to appoint public servants, new research has found, more women are appointed throughout public bodies and those organisations enact

  • Posted March 29, 2017
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  Women prioritised in dead heat contests for top Irish jobs

  Women are to be favoured in selection processes that find two candidates to be of equal merit, under new rules applying to senior jobs in Ireland’s civil service. On 16

  • Posted January 31, 2017
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  U.S. government urged to recruit ‘aggressively’ in face of retirement boom

  U.S. government departments should “aggressively recruit and hire” people into the public service as a “retirement boom” is looming and not enough lower-ranking officials are showing interest in moving up to

  • Posted June 23, 2016
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