Sentences with phrase «government by civil servants»

These «wannabe successful but don't wannawork» Realtors are matched in the bureaucracy of government by civil servants who are convinced there are folks out in the real world who are having fun and they are going to do something about it.

Not exact matches

«It's quite easy to bulk up capacity by recruiting low to mid-level civil servants, often generalists with a few years experience,» the Institute For Government's Joe Owen told BI.

Business owners» views on tax fairness is also demonstrated in their reactions to certain statements: More than three - quarters (77 %) agree with the statement «Government civil servants get the biggest breaks by far because of their tax - supported pensions.»

The main man in this regard was Mr. Paul Boothe, an unassuming, consummate federal civil servant who proved in the heat of battle that he could negotiate with the best of them. If only all our public officials were as determined and skilful in their efforts to pro-actively win real investment and real opportunities for our industries. The St. Catharines announcement is in large part the fruition of the efforts by Boothe (and all the other stakeholders in last year's rescue, including the provincial government and the CAW) to negotiate a package that was much more than a bailout. Rather, it was a recipe for a reaffirmed Canadian presence by these two lynchpin manufacturers (GM and Chrysler).

Our economy goes bad, unemployment goes up, crime goes up, and our local, state, and federal governments react by laying off civil servants that spent there lives protecting us.

If charities allow themselves to be used as «extra civil servants» by governments, they will signal the death of their organizations, resulting in an unfortunate loss for many communities.

Some charities may think the government link a great deal, but Ms. Arrison suggests they think again: «By accepting responsibility for a program dictated by government agencies, charities will slide down a slippery slope with the end result being they will be regarded as civil servants — not as part of a vibrant community that voluntarily strengthens civil societBy accepting responsibility for a program dictated by government agencies, charities will slide down a slippery slope with the end result being they will be regarded as civil servants — not as part of a vibrant community that voluntarily strengthens civil societby government agencies, charities will slide down a slippery slope with the end result being they will be regarded as civil servants — not as part of a vibrant community that voluntarily strengthens civil society.

This is very interesting to me because although I'm a minister, I'm employed by the government as a civil servant.

For peoples subject to, or allied with, the Roman state, this change in the form of government did not make a great deal of difference, except that in the early years of the empire the power struggles which accompanied the decline of the republic seemed to have come to an end, and tax - collection by private companies, often accompanied by extortion, was replaced by tax - collection by civil servants.

Haruna Iddrisu said this is part of a grand scheme by the Nana Addo - led government to dismiss more civil servants.

Whatever this Lib Dem activity, or government review, is, it continues to be led by civil servants in the Cabinet Office.

Indeed, until it was reformed in 1989, Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911 made it a criminal offence for any civil servant or public contractor to reveal any information he or she had learned in the course of his or her work: an offence that successive governments continued to prosecute well into the 1980s, despite recommendations published in 1972 by the Franks Committee calling for reform.

The Ministry of Finance has rendered an apology to civil servants whose names were deleted from government payroll following measures by government to sanitise the system by deleting ghost names.

«It therefore appears that this was not properly drawn up by civil servants in order to avoid conflicts of interest in government, but hastily cobbled together after Mr Crosby had become a political embarrassment to the Conservative party,» Trickett wrote in a reply to Heywood's letter.

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.

Government could use parliamentary committees to look at proposals and identify problems in advance — pre-legislative scrutiny in practice doesn't match its current remit, and there is a need to bring back «in - house» a lot of work that was traditionally done by civil servants but has been outsourced, with an unhealthy relationship between the private sector and consultants.

This clearly is not good law and it is no wonder that the Hunting Act was cited in 2010 as an example of poor legislation by The Better Government Initiative, which was compiled by former senior civil servants, including Lord Butler, Sir John Chilcot and Sir Thomas Legg.

No one would dispute the idea that civil servants do need to be accountable for their actions, but equally the last thing we want to see is government ministers evading their responsibilities by blaming others.

Ministers have launched an investigation after a letter by Whitehall's top civil servant warning against the leaking of government secrets was leaked to a newspaper.

«This is a government that has the interest of workers at heart, the very reason we stoically refused to retrench any civil servant despite dwindling resources we met and worsened by the recession,» he said.

The government insists the appointments are made by independent committees mostly composed of civil servants and independent members, but No 10 representatives are allowed to attend and the final lists are approved by the prime minister and the Queen.

He also proposed that the Government might like to save money by relocating civil servants to Carlisle:

Writing in a Guardian article, Bob Kerslake made one of the strongest attacks on a government by a retired senior civil servant, saying the bill marked a «partisan and disproportionate» attempt to improve the position of the Conservatives at the expense of Labour.

The reasons why Quick raided Green's Commons office nearly nine years ago can be traced back even further, to a day in 2006 when a young civil servant called Christopher Galley, working in Jacqui Smith's Home Office, was allegedly told by Green, then opposition immigration spokesman, to get «as much dirt on the Labour party, the Labour government, as possible».

The commissioner also disclosed that all government functionaries and civil servants in the state has been banned by the governor from attending social events scheduled for Fridays, saying Fridays are working days.

Aides close to Clegg pointed out that the Lib Dem review was also a «government review» as it is being conducted by civil servants based in the Cabinet Office.

Taking France as an example, most statutes stem from what's called a projet de loi, submitted by the government (and therefore drafted by professional civil servants working for a ministry).

The Better Government Initiative was compiled by 14 former senior civil servants, including Lord Butler, who carried out an inquiry into intelligence leading up to the Iraq war, current Iraq inquiry chairman Sir John Chilcot and Sir Thomas Legg, who is overseeing the audit of MPs» expenses.

The report also criticises both the informal «sofa» style of government pioneered by Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's reliance on special advisers, rather than impartial civil servants, during his time as chancellor.

«As organised labour, we therefore find it difficult to place the faith of these people who are constantly feeding the public with lies in order to deceive when the truth of the matter is that Kogi State civil servants and pensioners are dying of starvation and treatable diseases, walking the street of Lokoja as beggars because their salaries and allowances have not been paid for a period of three to twenty - two months by the government of Yahaya Bello.

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.

«Meanwhile, we use this medium to thank the ever resolute civil servants for their faith and belief in the leadership of the organised labour by complying 100 % with the directive to stay away from government offices and facilities where they work without pay.

Those witnesses that could claim to be either a member of, or employed by, the Government (that is, Ministers, quango employees, and civil servants) manage to achieve a greater degree of representativeness.

According to Faleke, «We came to the presidency to let the federal government know what is happening in Kogi state as regards the fortunes of the party, the way it is dwindling day by day as regards the civil servant, the welfare of the people and their relationship with the state government.

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...

While the party attributed the suicide to the insincerity of the governor in the application of the two tranches of bailout approved by the Federal Government to pay workers» salaries, Fayose said the pains caused by the economic recession of President Muhammadu Buhari's administration was responsible for the civil servants death.

He said, «Some months back when regular payment of workers salary by the state government became difficult due to the obnoxious economic policies of the Buhari administration and plundering of the state by the immediate past APC — led government, this particular civil servant did not hang himself then.

Bello, who visited offices in government ministries and agencies in the capital on Monday, saw in person the 100 % compliance by civil servants to the strike directive from labour leaders.

Francis Maude has today revealed how special advisers to government ministers have been abusing their position by commissioning civil servants to produce work explicitly for the purpose of attacking the Conservative Party.

The civil servants deported by Abia State Government should also sue the government withGovernment should also sue the government withgovernment without delay.

Piqued by the inability of the just concluded workers» screening exercise to bring down its wage bills, the Kogi State government has introduced electronic attendance register to further checkmate the activities of the civil servants.

It's especially hard to see how a Downing Street policy unit staffed partly by civil servants can give Government strategy the drive and focus it needs.

Blair responded post-1997 by crafting a Presidential Premiership, giving political appointments such as Jonathan Powell and Alistair Campbell the authority to instruct civil servants, and instituting what David Cameron in opposition called «Sofa Government» - in other words, making decisions in meetings unminuted by Whitehall.

Under the Monetisation Policy introduced by the administration of former President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2005, official houses occupied by federal civil servants were sold to them by the government to reduce the cost of governance.

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.

The workshop, to be organised by the Centre for Exploitation of Science and Technology, a government think - tank, will draw together 30 «up - and - coming industrialists», academics and civil servants.

«Even in countries with strong national policies and laws,» says co-author Susan Garnett Russell, «several factors result in an implementation gap including lack of capacity in government schools, low levels of capacity among civil servants, autonomy of local and school administrators, and discrimination and xenophobia by the host communities.»

Overall, 28 of the cases found by the report involved former ministers or secretaries of state, 28 involved high - placed civil servants or cabinet members, 22 involved members of parliament and 10 involved former members of government regulatory agencies.

[1] Compiled by an unnamed civil servant in the midst of a tumultuous white settler rebellion that forced the imperial government to intervene in... Continue Reading

Mr. Justice Denny Thomas of the Alberta Court of Queen's Bench did not merely accept the arguments of the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees when he slapped an injunction on the Government of Alberta yesterday, indefinitely suspending a law that could have forced 22,000 civil servants to live with a contract imposed on them by legislative fiat.