Sentences with phrase «of civil servants by»

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Management by mandarin To run his fiefdom and its business holdings, Lee relies heavily on an elite cadre of about fifty senior civil servants.

As the vision for the connecting tunnel between Folkestone and Calais became more concrete, Ministry of Defence (MoD) civil servants and senior military officers drew up the nuclear plan in order to thwart a possible invasion by the Soviet army from Calais, The Independent has discovered.

When Russia decriminalized domestic violence in February 2017, civil servants tasked with protecting women in the country's far east were dismayed by the new vulnerability of their wards.

Part of my rationale for speaking so strongly here is that Kevin called into question the integrity of the Tax Policy Center, a group staffed by highly respected former civil servants, by calling their work «scientifically indefensible» and «fiction».

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.»

Unfortunately, this knowledge is often denigrated by «blood - and - guts» exporters who wrongly claim that civil servants know little about the day - to - day realities of exporting.

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).

Their English contemporaries, by contrast, included country parsons like Charles Kingsley and George Crabbe, civil servants like Trollope, and inspectors of schools like Matthew Arnold.

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.

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.

In the late 1970s a Home Office Minister, advised by his Civil Servants, told me there was no paedophile problem in the United Kingdom despite the evidence presented to him by a deputation of MPs.

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.

During a long period of research and drafting by civil servants, the proposals were strongly opposed by a lobby of children's and women's organisations on the grounds that any change would be an invitation to violent men to abuse their partners.

«Pupils and students of public schools have been at home for over four weeks due to the strike embarked upon by civil servants and teachers.»

A footnote in PESA 1996 stated «This covers the pay costs of civil servants and others (including casual staff) covered by running costs plus Ministry of Defence's operating costs regime» and we found that (for those years only) the paybill included the whole of the armed forces pay.

Civil servants will be required to lay before parliament a command paper including the proposals of all three UK political parties by this date.

With recent staff changes in the DfT, the BMF also warn that it also means that there is now no one senior from the DfT, either civil servant or minister, who was involved at the outset of the review, a review set up to address a revised testing regime that had seen new tests introduced by the DSA and hundreds of test centres close.

Blaming the Pension problem on the legitimate Civil Servants in the State, Counties, Municipalities and non-faculty School District employees is a fiction being promoted by the «Insiders» and their Business Council allies, the latter whom saw their defined contribution pension funds tank and with it those in retiree status or near retiree status losing half of their nest eggs.

On the BoG Board, Keli Gadzekpo, a co-founder of Databank with Mr. Ofori Atta, is a Board Member, even as eight Senior Civil Servants at the Ministry of Finance have been replaced with people from Databank by Ofori - Atta.

This paper was discussed, and further examples of data breaks across the public sector were explored, at a seminar at LSE in April, attended by senior civil servants and academics.

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

«The procurement of contracts are often done centrally, by civil servants in Whitehall who don't know what's best for a particular prison.

Real democracy could take # 200 billion (30 %) off the cost of running the UK by replacing our unproductive politicians and senior civil servants by a few elected co-ordinators with emergency powers only.

The definitions remained fairly stable until in 2004 an efficiency review conducted by Sir Peter Gershon led to the reclassification of a large number of civil servants (mainly prisons, courts, and immigration staff) out of administration costs.

This means that while public services — such as the replacement of a lost national identity card or primary or secondary education — have official costs (in the formal economy) they often are now accompanied by supplementary costs that are pocketed by the civil servant as a means to supplement lost salary (informal economy), this is one manifestation of the barter within a cash economy.

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.

We need the lessons in them to be embraced by the most senior officials within Departments and for the idea of political risk analysis to be formally built - in to the training of civil servants.

Over the period from 1980 to 2010 numbers of civil servants were cut by over a third — ostensibly to cut costs — but the costs of hiring civil servants did not fall at all in constant - price terms, and overall running costs continued to rise.

But the content of this report was written by civil servants, not Baker.

Suffolk County Employees, other than sworn police or correction officers, are categorized as either management employees, meaning that they serve at the pleasure of their designated supervisor, or are civil servants protected by collective bargaining agreements and are members of the Association of Municipal Employees (herein after A.M.E.).

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.

Ministers appointed a head of the Student Loans Company, who was later sacked, despite concerns raised by civil servants during recruitment, Whitehall's spending watchdog has disclosed.

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.

The four people challenging the prisoner book ban were vastly outnumbered by the MoJ's legal team, which had solicitors, barristers and plenty of civil servants to back them up.

These illegal and violent acts which took place in a Rambo fashion taking many civil servants by surprise is generating fear and drawing unwanted international attention to the country with speed gaining notoriety and creating the impression that we are a nation of lawless people without any strong and responsible leadership.

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.

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.

Briefings produced in 2010 by civil servants in the Department for Education (DfE) on the principle of whether or not Steiner schools should gain state funding through the Free Schools programme express serious concern about issues such as racism, systemic bullying, academic rigour, secrecy and whether or not the schools would be able to pass Ofsted inspections, the British Humanist Association (BHA) can today reveal.

Brown's opponents are convinced that the source of the story was Downing Street, using papers held in confidence by a civil servant, in order to discredit the communities secretary hours after she quit this morning.

Action by up to 10 unions will be finalised at next week's TUC conference in London, said Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the civil servants» Public and Commercial Services union.

«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.

«I hereby call on President Buhari to restore faith in Nigeria's civil service and its security and military forces by immediately replacing Ibrahim Magu as the acting Chairman of the EFCC and imposing punitive measures on him to deter other civil servants with a similar streak.»

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 Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria in Osun State has said that the union will embark on three - day warning strike if its demands are not met by Thursday.

Any minister is reliant on their private office to point out what they need to read and what they don't, and on the face of it she was let down by her civil servants and her special advisers.

The dismissal of civil servants appointed during the NDC era, the Parliamentary bribery scandal, Ameri sponsorship of the Addison committee, persecution of officials and supporters of the biggest opposition party and, the appointment of friends and relatives by the president to sensitive positions among others, have been widely discussed.