Sentences with phrase «job of civil servants»

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

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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.

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.

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 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.

«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.

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:

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.

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.

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.

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»).

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».

Selected works from artists, designers, coders, technologists, and citizens alike explore data on population counts, Manhattan tree topography, civil servant job duties, and more, highlighting the wide variety of open data available to all.

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 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.

It was established in this treaty that the persons who reside in the territory of Lithuania on the day of its ratification and «who themselves or whose parents permanently reside in Lithuania or who were entered into the communities of settlements, towns or estates in the territory of Lithuania», as well as the persons who had resided in Lithuania for not less than ten years by 1914 and who had permanent jobs, «excluding the former civil and military servants, of non-Lithuanian origin, with their families» are recognised as citizens of the State of Lithuania.

What the spokesperson didn't say is that there was a feeling among some participants that the project was ambushed by civil servants fearful of losing their jobs.

A letter sent to senior MoJ civil servants, which was leaked to unions, warned the majority of savings would have to be made in the next 12 - 24 months and would involve job losses, according to press reports.

The charter would ban the wearing of kippas, turbans, burkas, hijabs and «large» crosses for civil servants while they are on the job.

Today's realty is that the UK's top jobs are disproportionately held by people from a narrow range of backgrounds: — 71 % Senior Judges; — 62 % Senior Armed Forces Officers; — 55 % Top Civil Servants; — 36 % Cabinet; — 45 % Newspaper Columnists

As a civil servant, you will be judged on your competencies, rather than simply on your experience in a particular job, so it's possible to move from one area of work to another.

If Fintrac was more than a job for well connected civil servants, would you not think they would have figured out by now that a signature is an important part of the ID process?