Sentences with phrase «of civil servants»

This guidance covers the conduct of civil servants in the run up to local, national, European elections.

How can a whole country through the support of the media back a needless political persecution of one person with our own state resources when we can't even pay salaries of civil servants?

There are thousands of civil servants who can provide the technical details about a policy.

For one thing, it's affiliated with huge government agencies employing large numbers of civil servant scientists.

There is some fascinating observations about the role of civil servants and how to use them to implement policy.

He blamed the problems on a lack of «professionalism» and a «culture of secrecy» among the team of civil servants originally in charge of the programme.

Hence, this group of civil servants will both simultaneously hold schools to account for their performance and be performance - managed based on how many they convert.

These changes will send out a clear message to the army of civil servants who govern our lives: you might just be able to get away with it.

He observed that there was poor attendance of civil servants at the event and directed that they would have to queue behind their commissioners in subsequent presentations.

They are mostly running on their 2014 budget, which they had an army of civil servants assist in drafting and costing the plan.

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

All these data sets are summarized in our final figure, which also shows the number of civil servants since 1961.

He is the son of a civil servant and worked as a lobbyist before being elected.

There is no statutory protection of civil servant independence.

So all civil servants already have a common language (and any given pair of civil servants will very often have two or three languages in common).

The report is highly critical of the financial management skills of the civil servants in charge of delivering universal credit.

However, the vast majority of professors do not wish to lose the essentially lifetime security of civil servant status.

That's quite a lot of civil servants ticking boxes.

Each one is lined with a number of small, well - appointed rooms, formerly the offices of civil servants.

The civil service code sets out very clearly the role of civil servants and how they are expected to behave with regard to official information.

A private investor, the government and the ten - strong team of civil servants will each own one - third of the company.

With that number of civil servants — just a few hundred — it's hard for it to be a viable department.

He, therefore, sought the cooperation of the Association of Civil Servants of Nigeria to join the ministry in its efforts to drive the change agenda.

Nor will it include the CO2 cost of the civil servant who processes the tax return of the wind developer making vast sums of money.

Writing in NLJ this week, family law solicitor David Burrows says most parents are unrepresented, legal aid is rare and few lawyers deal with it, while «the majority of civil servants who operate the various branches of child support struggle with the meaning of swathes of the complex secondary legislation».

Proceedings in the Welsh assembly have been stopped and government services across the country shut down today as thousands of civil servants strike over pay and job cuts.

The People Democratic Party, PDP, in Kaduna State, has expressed its support for the current industrial action embarked upon by teachers in the state against the continuous sacking of civil servants in the state.

The union is demanding among other issues, that the government pay earned salary arrears of civil servants in Kogi State.

The one category of civil servants which increased substantially in number and paybill over the past five years was «special advisers,» the political appointees who work closely with ministers (Figure 3).

Reducing the number of civil servants by not replacing those who resign is an imprudent measure.

From the beating up of a serving police officer at the Flagstaff House to the beating up of a regional security coordinator, the disruption of a court process, the burning of toll booths, and the molestation of civil servants, the lawless culture of impunity has now reached the doorstep of the Ghana Armed Forces,» the statement signed by its General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketia said.

The Cabinet Office claims a fifth of civil servants - around 90,000 people - are on strike compared with a third in the last big walkout in 2011.

Behind the Times's paywall today, Rachel Sylvester describes how a team of civil servants helped to drive finding # 500 million of savings last year, and believes that there are big digital reductions to be made across Government - «the Cabinet Office believes it can save 40 per cent on the cost of building secondary schools».

Maude: (on appointment of civil servants) «I know of nothing that says as a matter of law a choice on merit can not take place if a politician was involved in the choice.»

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.

The privatisation of a unit of civil servants is being seen as a big move across Whitehall, as it paves the way for what Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude says could be «dozens more spin - outs» in the next few years.

The Minister who made the disclosure at an interactive session with newsmen on Tuesday shortly after he met with the Association of Civil Servants of Nigeria in Abuja said the programme would enlighten Nigerians on the need to positively change their attitude and ensure they do the right things.

In his latest campaign leaflet, launched today, amongst other declarations of people saying «why we're backing Ed ``, Ken says: «I was impressed that, more than any other Minister, Ed was in command of his civil servants and was able to drive through the sort of infrastructure projects that we need to avoid a double dip recession.»

@PA: The position of these civil servants is that they are civil masters and may dictate to congress

Basically, anything that smacks of providing a personal benefit rather than a business purpose is liable to be included in the employees income and taxed (we saw this in the city of Toronto last week where the CRA announced that it would be reassessing a whole whack of civil servants for free parking provided by their employer).

We understand from analysts at the NAO that these figures were based on numbers and grades of civil servants and their average salaries (plus estimates of superannuation, national insurance, bonus payments, etc.)-- but the underlying data are not all publicly available.

This dramatic fall was not mentioned in the text, but a footnote now described the paybill as covering «the pay costs of civil servants falling within Administration Budgets.»

The Order of Civil Merit was established by King Alfonso XIII in 1926 to «reward the civic virtues of civil servants as well as the extraordinary services to the Nation of Spanish and foreign subjects.»

I come from a family of civil servants: my uncle was a NYC police officer and my grandfather a fire battalion chief.

The professors enjoy the status of civil servants and in that sense are one step removed from direct ecclesiastical control; but their primary responsibilities are clear, and all theological work is done in a distinct confessional mold.

Research for the Institute for Government found that the churn of civil servants at DExEU is 9 % per quarter, that compares to 9 % per year in the rest of Whitehall.

In some of the most strongly worded criticisms of a civil servant seen in a Commons report, the committee accused him of breaching internal HMRC rules by authorising a large tax settlement he had been involved in, having «too cosy» a relationship to big companies and giving «imprecise, inconsistent and potentially misleading answers» to MPs.

Cabinet Office minister Chloe Smith suggested an exodus of civil servants away from Whitehall could be necessary as the coalition presses on with its deficit reduction agenda.