Sentences with phrase «civil servant job»

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Even if we made high level bilingualism a requirement for all civil servant jobs it still would not increase the return to learning French in Canada.

Not exact matches

And let's not forget the expansion in government bureaucracy and jobs created for civil servants.

The job of civil servants is to speak truth to power, and yes occasionally suffer the consequences.

Maybe it was a family friend — a bookish man who despite his job as a civil servant had a rich and lively intellectual life.

Groomed by the American system for some job like the one he holds — high school at Roxbury Latin, undergrad at Yale (and president of Yale's prestigious Political Union in his last year there), law school at Harvard — he belongs to a type of quiet and careful civil servant that Caesar Augustus would have recognized.

As you said, once you arrive at your job as a civil servant, you should be there to do work.

When he sought reinstatement as a Parisian civil servant — a job he had despised in younger days — the authorities disqualified him for moral turpitude.

I am not a pastor or in any position of leadership within the church but as a full time civil servant I would get the sack if I did not do my job competently or I have the option to leave if I become disillusioned with the job.

these guys are suppose to be civil servants not footballers, why pay so much when less is expected from them, in Africa were I come from, d worst set of workers are d civil servants, they don't set target for them, laxity to work, non challant attitude yet there job is d most secured in Nigeria, arsene Wenger is a civil servant

The Akufo Addo government's inexplicable belief in the «job for the boys» philosophy also threatens to render valuable human resources in the various MDA's redundant following the engagement of a legion of special assistants and advisors who wield more influence and power than very senior public and civil servants in many MDAs despite possessing limited qualifications.

Cost - cutting efforts may force more civil servants» jobs outside central London, a minster has warned.

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.

It is totally unacceptable that civil and public servants doing vital jobs, such as coastguard watch assistants, should earn just above the minimum wage and be faced with pay cuts in real terms.

The government has to recognise that this erosion of confidence can only be halted by having enough civil and public servants with the right resources to do the job.

Plans to shake up the way government departments in Whitehall are run could mean that under - performing civil servants lose their jobs.

Lord Crickhowell notes that projects are becoming increasingly complicated and that there is some reluctance from civil servants to do jobs and employ consultants from outside to do these jobs.

«I mean there's one case in the Ministry of Defence where [chief of defence materiel] Bernard Gray comes to me saying he's trying to keep a senior civil servant in his job.

The underappreciated, dedicated civil servants who deliver these services do an amazing job.

Speaking as the union meets in Brighton for its annual conference, and a day after delegates voted to ballot a quarter of a million civil and public servants for a strike over cuts to jobs, pensions and pay, Mark said:

About 280,000 civil servants will be balloted on strike action today as the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union protests against job losses and outsourcing.

The senior civil servant has been replaced in the job by his trusted deputy Helen Bower, who delivered this morning's lobby briefing for hacks.

To me, those civil servants that were involved in the preparation of the budget ought to be probed because they did a sordid job and deliberately failed to be on top of their job.

There is a lot of talent in the Civil Service that should be moved up the ranks into top level management (and no Civil Servants should lose their jobs, or their upward mobility).

This would appear to explain why an internal and confidential projection drawn up by civil servants at the Department for Education suggested 40,000 teachers could lose their jobs over the course of this spending review.

Hundreds of thousands of public sector jobs are threatened, pay is being frozen or set below inflation and the government has made it clear it will implement Lord Hutton's proposals on public sector pensions, meaning civil and public servants will pay more and work longer for a lower pension.

More than a quarter of a million civil and public servants in the Public and Commercial Services union will start voting this week in a national strike ballot over cuts to pensions, jobs and pay.

That the process by which ministers and civil servants consult on jobs they take after public office should be put on a statutory basis.

She seems to be doing pretty much the same job for him now - but as a civil servant.

As with this week's other row, over Michael Gove's political advisers using private email channels to circumvent FoI inquiries about their free schools policy, we can see that civil servants have difficult jobs which both politicians and the media can make much harder.

The Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg MP told Channel 4 News: «I think many soldiers in the frontline in Afghanistan will be really angered that the bloated Ministry of Defence back home where there are hundreds, thousands of civil servants doing desk jobs aren't doing what they're supposed to do, which is keep the budget in check so that our brave soldiers are properly supported in the frontline.»

Oone of the country's most important jobs is held by a little - known 49 - year old civil servant called Robert Stheeman.

Thousands of Revenue and Customs workers will stage a half - day walkout today, marking the latest phase of industrial action by civil servants over jobs, pensions and terms and conditions.

The revolving door in Whitehall in which former ministers and top - ranking civil servants take lucrative private - sector jobs has been spinning faster than ever.

Civil servants, including Passport Office, job centre and courts staff, who have rejected a pay rise capped at 1 %

Respected on all sides of the house, Carlile has worked in government alongside civil servants in the home office reviewing its counter-terror policy and although appointed by Labour the coalition extended his job after the election.

A major job for OMB staff — most of whom are career civil servants — is to find ways to constrain spending while balancing agency needs with the views of the president.

How Your Job Is Killing You In the early 1970s a project tracking 18,000 male British civil servants found that the lowest - ranking white - collar workers had the highest rates of premature death.

But Laird's research, presented this week at the American Sociological Association's annual meeting in Chicago, found that black civil servants, especially women, lost their jobs at rates higher than whites.

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.

At least one former NSF rotator, meanwhile, has learned that the apparent benefits of keeping one's salary and position and not having to become a civil servant leaves them defenseless if tensions arise in the workplace (see Part 2, «Scientists on Loan to NSF Have No Protection if Job Conduct Is Questioned»).

The rest are all career civil servants whose jobs are not tied to a given administration.

I assume that this school chose to become an academy to escape the clutches of its supposedly «controlling» LA, where there was at least a semblance of democratic accountability, only to fall into the hands of «unelected, unaccountable» civil servants who «are suffocating headteachers from doing their jobs».

A civil servant from the Netherlands whose job was to make sure wine bottles being sold were sufficiently filled.

Also known as «government jobs,» civil servant positions are eligible for the federal program for student loan forgiveness.

Federal employees (e.g. NOAA or the DOE labs) see even less effect of grant funding on personal income, and since it's almost impossible to fire a US Civil Servant, job security isn't even much of an incentive.

The politicians, university administrators, civil servants, journalists etc. who conspired in the different cover ups were by and large just doing what they always do: protecting the status quo, and, indirectly their own jobs and status.

Who stripped job protections from civil servants?

Job done, Civil Servants happy, Polticans off the hook and «Climate Scientists» on the Gloabal Warming End vindicated.

The civil servant's job is to answer questions on behalf of the Prime Minister, and to alert them to governmental happenings that Number 10 feels they should know about.