Sentences with phrase «getting civil service»

I'm sure there must be other examples of party political staff suddenly getting civil service jobs in recent months.

City Deals and the Local Growth Fund have made important steps towards devolution, but it has been a struggle to get the civil service to change and reforms that could make a difference have often stalled on technicalities.

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His parents encouraged him to get a job in civil service or a large corporation, and then stay put.

So instead of worrying about DeVos, we really should be focusing on: (1) Congressional Republicans, who've already shown great enthusiasm for weakening the nutrition standards for school meals and limiting their accessibility to low - income kids (see my Civil Eats piece, «3 Things You Need to Know About the House School Food Bill «-RRB-; (2) the as - yet - unscheduled confirmation hearing for Agriculture Secretary nominee Sonny Perdue, during which we're likely to get more information on how he views the NSLP; and (3) whoever eventually is appointed Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services, the USDA official directly in charge of child nutrition programs.

«To help get that revolution started in the public sector, working with the Cabinet Office, I've been pushing hard for radical reforms to the way in which the Civil Service pays and supports its staff after their children are born.

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Next month we will look at dealing with the civil service, and how to get the most out of political meetings.

If they can't pass that Civil Service test, they'll get coached.

Steve Hilton, who has taken leave from Downing Street, was reported by the Sunday Times to have told students at California's Stanford University about the difficulties he faced getting the government's reform programme through the civil service.

We can get some indication from a recent NAO report (Central government staff costs, 2015) which used unpublished Cabinet Office data to calculate that the total annualised salary cost for the civil service in 2014 was # 11.13 billion, a decrease of # 2.49 billion in real terms on 2010.

The civil service's best bits — the resilient doers, deliverers and optimists — are still there, and still getting things done.

HS2 received an amber - red rating, which in civil service speak is saying it's that bad we're not sure you'll ever get it right.

The civil service made the decision, Cameron countered, and anyway Leveson already said no civil service vetting process was likely to get to the bottom of phone - hacking.

The senior figures who wrote in to the civil service seeing if they could help never got a reply.

If you hold ministers accountable for everything that happens at their department, including departmental operations, you will never get a high performing civil service.

The office of Mayor Stephanie Miner disagreed with the notion the practice is illegal and argued using SURA to get around required civil service exams for workers allowed the city to be more nimble in hiring.

An audit released Thursday morning by a state oversight board is critical of a hiring practice long - used by the city of Syracuse to get around civil service requirements.

A few days after a state audit criticized a long - used Syracuse hiring practice to get around civil service laws, the Common Council probed the issue, but councilors came down more on the side of the mayor's office than the auditors.

The civil service is generally an efficient machine whose professional approach means few suggestions get anywhere unless they are supported by evidence that change must happen and that it is in the public interest.

The opposition gets its own protocols for limited civil service assistance, too.

Their one - year - on report on the civil service reform plan has been unusually honest about the areas where change is not taking place - in a bid to embarrass civil servants into getting on with the reforms.

At today's public protection budget hearing, a fairly stark Republican - Democrat debate formed over whether, facing a 2 percent cap, additional court funding should go to judicial raises or an increase in civil legal services, which helps the poor get legal representation in court.

ALBANY — Providing legal services for low - income New Yorkers in civil cases boosts the economy by speeding court dockets, keeping people in their homes and ensuring they get the federal...

ALBANY — Providing legal services for low - income New Yorkers in civil cases boosts the economy by speeding court dockets, keeping people in their homes and ensuring they get the federal benefits they're due, state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli said Tuesday.

John Redwood has the commonsense and grit needed to road test policies and get them through Whitehall with out the civil service hierachy making mischief.

The workers» union, CSEA, filed a lawsuit claiming the city violated state Civil Service law by refusing to pay the employee for the time she spent getting the mammogram.

In order to get back to where we were we should make the civil service extremely difficult to enter academically, and employ more middle and upper class people who are more impervious to being seduced by money and power.

«So there was need to do an audit to find out how we got to the situation where there were more senior than junior level civil servants; it was lopsided, the issues necessitated the civil service reform which is part of the five cardinal programmes of the government,» He said.

Councilor Helen Hudson called it unfair and a disservice to the residents of Syracuse who have passed a civil service exam and are waiting to get into the fire department.

David Cameron had to fight part of the civil service to get his Munich speech through the system.

While having a permanent civil service ensures a degree of continuity of government it means that there are going to be people that get too comfortable in their roles, become obstructive or simply don't believe in the policy agenda they are tasked with delivering.

This Health Group looks very NYC and politically Left oriented, meaning that Policy and Procedure will continue to have a Left Wing philosophical orientation (including the hiring and promoting of Dem Party Constituencies over the You Get Whoever Wins in the Fair and Open Competition Merit and Fitness Civil Service System).

«I am honored to have earned the support of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and Civil Service Employees Association (CSEA) Local 1000, and to stand with them in the fight to help working families get ahead and stay ahead,» Clinton said.

He said that he believes that the Town Board can do this for several reasons, despite increasing costs like pensions and insurance rates that are out of their control: «We're getting ready to sit down and negotiate with the CSEA [Civil Service Employees» Union, which represents most Town employees].

Mark Serwotka was recently interviewed in The Guardian: «The most likely comment to exasperate Serwotka is the assertion that they're fat cats, a smug drain on the public purse: of 301,000 members «we've got 30,000 people earning just above the minimum wage, 100,000 earning less than # 15,000 [the average civil service salary is # 22,000].

The ongoing controversies surrounding the reinstatement of Abdulrasheed Maina, a former Chairman of the Pension Reform Task Force have gotten Dambazzau, Oyo - Ita and Malami implicated as they were alleged to have facilitated Maina's recall into the federal civil service.

«The real lessons from this scandal need to be learned by the politicians who got exactly what they asked for from the civil service, even if that fact is now a little inconvenient.»

A spokesman for DEC said Walsh's primary duties there were overseeing its forest rangers and environment conservation officers, and that Walsh was a political appointee, not someone who went through the civil service process to get his position.

Pressure groups are particularly important to supporting the opposition, which has few policy experts to rival the civil service, and they also support government backbenchers in getting issues onto the agenda.

«We're going to get the word out to everyone in the building,» said Michele Weaver, who co-chairs the Civil Service Employees Association local committee for health and safety.

«Francis Maude has started to fight for civil service reform — good Main BORIS MOMENT OF THE DAY: The London Mayor gets stuck on a zip wire»

And, of course, the people who make real policies — the ones that are actually going to be put into practice — are those in government; plenty of people get jobs in the civil service after training as scientists.

This is a guide to getting a job in the civil service explaining the how, when where and why of getting a job outside teaching.

«Up to a quarter of staff that are the best performers can get a bonus — that's the standard arrangement across the civil service.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California has found an ally in the U.S. Department of Justice for its lawsuit charging that the state abdicated its obligation to ensure all students classified as English learners get extra instructional services to become fluent in English.

A new federal civil rights agreement aims to get better and more appropriate services for children with disabilities who have been continually suspended or excluded from class at Achievement First Hartford Academy Middle School for disciplinary reasons.

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Regardless of your hopeful career field, you can enter civil service and stay on that path, getting ahead with valuable work experience and serving your country for the greater good.

When I went to get job training I was denied because the government had no record of my civil service registration from the 80's.

Upon finishing high school in 1918, she took the civil service exam and got a job as a secretary for Army Air Corps Lieutenant Theodore Sizer (who later became an art history professor at Yale).