Sentences with phrase «as a civil servant at»

Having gained a first class degree from Oxford and begun his career working as a civil servant at 10 Downing Street under Baroness Thatcher, the former MP was nicknamed «Two Brains» by his colleagues due to his background and his serious approach to policy formulation.

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That period would prove important for another reason: the government posted Kuroda for a year as special adviser to the cabinet of Junichiro Koizumi, giving the civil servant sustained exposure to politicians at the highest levels.

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At that time some civil servants (such as prison officers and immigration staff) were reclassified as «Programme» rather than «Administration».

On the BoG Board, Keli Gadzekpo, a co-founder of Databank with Mr. Ofori Atta, is a Board Member, even as eight Senior Civil Servants at the Ministry of Finance have been replaced with people from Databank by Ofori - Atta.

Suffolk County Employees, other than sworn police or correction officers, are categorized as either management employees, meaning that they serve at the pleasure of their designated supervisor, or are civil servants protected by collective bargaining agreements and are members of the Association of Municipal Employees (herein after A.M.E.).

When we look at the pattern more closely, that increase in administration costs turns out to have come from non-payroll items such as consultancy and IT, while paybill — what it cost to hire civil servants — stayed roughly the same in constant - price terms over the period as a whole.

Addressing an audience of more than 80 Parliamentarians and 150 construction industry leaders, civil servants and journalists at the House of Commons, Bill Bolsover, the Chairman of the Construction Products Association, identified the construction industry as a key driver of economic growth and suggested ways in which government should kick start the recovery.

The announcement came as McLoughlin attempted to lay the blame for the Department for Transport's (DfT) fiasco at the door of civil servants - and not his predecessor in the job Justine Greening, now the international development secretary.

The announcement comes as pressure grows on ministers to scrap a deal struck with civil servants in October, which allows existing workers to retire on a full pension at the age of 60, although new employees would have to work until 65.

Throughout its one hundred year history the Cabinet Office has, at times, had to fight for its survival — as much from the predatory activities of senior departmental civil servants as from ministers.

On Wednesday, George Osborne released a report by the most senior civil servant at the Treasury, Sir Nicholas Macpherson which «strongly» advised against the union as «currently proposed».

But Alex Salmond has hit out at the rejection of a currency union in the current proposed form, describing the comments of all three main UK parties, two main parties in the Hollyrood Parliament and the Treasury's most senior civil servant as bluff, bluster and bullying».

Blackmail, on the other hand, is the standard accusation of the weaker partner, as Nick Macpherson, former head of the civil servant at the Treasury, pointed out.

Indeed, what's the salary status of a typical Osun State civil servant as at December 2016?

Most states have chosen not to follow the federal example with regard to judges and have either imposed a constitutional retirement age, as in the case of Colorado, where Colorado Constitution, Article IV, Section 23 (1) requires judges to retire at age 72, and / or have a commission overseeing judges (and sometimes other civil servants) that can require them to retire due to disabilities which often arise from old age.

Brussels - based civil servants work at UKREP - effectively a UK embassy in Brussels - as they prepare the groundwork for the PM and ministers when they work and negotiate with the European Union.

Against all claims by civil servants in Kogi state, the states government has stated that no civil servant as at today is owed salaries Mr Gbenga Olorunpomi, the Senior Special Assistant on Electronic Media to Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi state has reinstated.

Labour is effectively saying that Britain's civil servants will be able to renationalise the railways, water utilities, the National Grid, Royal Mail, create regional public energy companies, a National Education Service and a National Care Service, create a large National Investment Bank and regional development banks, build a million homes and abolish tuition fees - to name just a few - at the same time as managing Brexit negotiations and their fallout.

Furthermore, to work as an EU civil servant, you need to speak at least two languages, one of them French, German, or English, and to be ready to learn a third one.

This report will show clearly the dangers being courted by Buhari's attitude, as well as the need to quickly fill the remaining six slots that would empower INEC with the full complement of its Board as stipulated by the Constitution — over 20 states of the federation do not have RECs as at today, thereby opening the Commission to the mercy of malleable civil servants.

Against all claims by civil servants in Kogi state, the states government has stated that no civil servant as at today is owed salaries Mr Gbenga...

Earlier in the same hearing, the top civil servant at the Home Office announced an inquiry into the advice given to Amber Rudd by members of the civil service «before, during and after» the select committee hearing that ultimately led to her resignation as home secretary last month.

The state chairman of CAN, Rev. Akpen Leva, expressed satisfaction with the level of compliance, saying the association had ordered a sit - at - home protest for all private organisations, including artisans, market women, commercial drivers and others, except civil servants, as the seven - day praying and fasting commenced on Monday.

Civil servants, businessmen and artisans were stranded on the road as at 9.30 am, some who could no longer bear the long wait in the traffic trekked to their offices and other destinations.

They highlighted the remarkable achievements of the governor that have impacted positively on their lives such as «prompt payment of monthly salaries / pensions, other allowances to state public and civil servants; absorption of 54 % of total cost of 100 housing units at Elim Estate allocated to workers; payment of outstanding arrears of salaries / pensions / allowances to Local Government Staff, through prudent utilization of 100 % of LG share of the Paris Club Refunds; promotion of teachers and recruitment of over 4000 school teachers as well as elongation of terminal grade of qualified primary school teachers to level 16».

Over the past year, at least 70,000 Venezuelans have lost their jobs — as civil servants, teachers, taxi drivers, and more — and gone to work in swampy gold mines to make enough money to survive.

Participants at the 2004 conference will include scientists of many disciplines, industrialists, politicians and civil servants, as well as anyone concerned about the role science should play in the political process.

See, e.g., Jeffrey Mervis, An Invisible Hand Behind Plan To Realign U.S. Science Education, 341 Science 338, 339 - 40 (2013)(describing an RMO official as «a good example of how a career civil servant can help shape policy at the White House» and quoting an advocate saying «we should be glad that she uses her powers for good, and not evil»).

Jack, a civil servant, has a pre-tax income of $ 96,000 per year and adds almost $ 14,000 per year from the Canada Child Benefit, a sum which will plummet as the children approach the cutoff at 17.

Burney worked as an architect at David Brody Bond until 1990, when he embarked on a 24 - year career as one of New York's key civil servants: first as director of design at NYCHA until 2003, and then as Commissioner of the City's Department of Design and Construction from 2004 until 2014.

So I count 3 - 4 in that chart as political appointees, all the rest would be career civil servants, mostly at the Senior Executive Service level.

In fact, that exemption is more narrow than people are realizing — there is in fact no real exemption for the children of military or diplomatic families, such as the thousands born over the decades at CFB Lahr, or every year to diplomats and other federal / provincial civil servants world wide.

Border patrol agents without law enforcement experience may start as GL - 5 civil servants at a salary of $ 40,511 to $ 50,639.