Sentences with phrase «of civil service reform»

The Senior Executive Service (SES) is a position classification in the civil service of the United States» Federal Government, which serves as the cornerstone of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 to ensure that the executive management of the government is of the highest quality.

My best guess is that the proper method of enforcement in federal buildings is simply administrative action, since violating the code can provide cause for firing federal employees under Chapter 75 of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978.

With the government's programme of civil service reform and the impact of austerity on Whitehall to scrutinise, PASC was already a busy committee.

1000 - Cabinet Office - New network launched: What Works is a product of civil service reform and open public services programmes, led by Open Public Services with ESRC, and other partners.

Exhibit A: a speech that Francis Maude delivered to Policy Exchange earlier this week, on the subject of civil service reform.

Is there some measure of civil service reform you think would make it easier to run this department and others more efficiently?

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It would mean Greece following through on its market reforms and privatizations + Greece reforming and downsizing its civil service + Greece maintaining a stable government despite public outcry + Greece fixing its tax collection system + the troika being willing to put off some Greece interest payments and then writing off some significant portion of Greece's debt when Greece's government finally consistently reaches a primary surplus.

In sermons and addresses he discussed the problems of emancipation, Reconstruction, immigration, the currency, taxes, a standing army, women's rights, Civil Service, reform, local party politics, municipal corruption, free trade, pacifism, presidential candidates... 54

However, the extension of bespoke, elite - controlled reform to England is likely to fuel constitutional instability across the UK state, further Anglicising the House of Commons (and by association the House of Lords) while also necessitating a further reordering of the UK civil service.

The Education Act of 1980 introduced the Assisted Place Scheme which took selected and gifted children out of the state school system and placed them into independent schools; the trade union reform acts abolished the closed shops, secondary picketing and stamped down wild - cat strikes; the Education Act of 1988 introduced City Technology Colleges, which took states schools out of the purview of the Local Education Authority; the 1988 Next Steps development began a transformation of the civil service by fragmenting in up into executive agencies; and the NHS and Community Care Act 1990 introduced the internal market into the NHS.

For Marquand, the 19th century was the great age of the public realm when Gladstone's reforms to the civil service enshrined an ethos of professionalism and public service and a civic pride and energy was unleashed across the country, as captured in the great civic architecture of northern cities.

How can a party that has recently been seen as «left of Labour» on civil liberties, democratic reform, taxation and public services now be engaged so enthusiastically in reducing the size of the state?

The government has lost its fight to prevent publication of an internal civil service assessment of risks posed by the government's NHS reforms.

This will examine, among other things, the independence of the civil service, the role of political advisers in government, and House of Lords reform.

Baroness Jay adds that the formal Parliamentary involvement with Civil Service reform is turning the issue into something of a live issue.

Maude: There were questions around the ability of ministers to decide on the shape and personnel in their department and we have made some proposals in the Civil Service reform plan to increase the ability of ministers to influence choice of permanent secretaries (with strict guidelines to avoid politicisation).

Kerslake, who was head of the civil service between 2011 and 2014, said the bill and government reforms to the Freedom of Information Act were worrying developments.

«Several of the proposed reforms to civil service would shred the merit - and - fitness system that protects fairness and high standards,» Fox said.

These reforms are being effected in the context of our determined anti-corruption programme and this effort can not succeed without a competent and committed civil service corp led by your good selves.

Of the 19 actions outlined in the civil service reform plan one year ago, today's report card states that just seven have seen the reform plan «delivered and / or on track to implement».

The ongoing battle to reform the civil service has not proceeded far beyond a statement of intent.

The move tears up reforms introduced by Mr Cameron in 2011, when he split the roles of Cabinet Secretary, head of the Home Civil Service and permanent secretary at the Cabinet Office on the retirement of Sir Gus O'Donnell - now Lord O'Donnell - but Downing Street rejected suggestions that it was a mark that the previous changes had failed.

David Cameron is shaking up the most senior posts in the Civil Service with the creation of a new chief executive to lead the government's programme of reform in Whitehall, Downing Street has announced.

«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.

Equally, our nation's inability to heed the call for the reform of our civil service has finally bogged down the public sector with bureaucracy and corruption, made fuel scarcity and unemployment natives.

Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi has lauded the sacrifices of civil servants who endured financial constraints during the recently concluded state's civil service reforms.

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.

Its terms should be drawn widely — Lords reform, electoral reform, the Monarchy, the Union, codification of the constitution, a bill of rights, the Church of England, the civil service, the EU, the courts and local government — with nothing left unconsidered.

Fancy footwork and evasion won't change the reality that even a «reform - minded» Governor like Andy Cuomo campaigning on promises of a «New New York» is keeping the shadow government of Commissions, Authorities and off - budget quasi-public corporations in place and running a patronage mill busily dispensing 6 - figure jobs to connected people who clearly have cabbage to burn while being incredibly penurious with civil service schlubs, secretaries and clerks.

The Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010 introduced a new statutory basis for the management of the civil service, and a new parliamentary process for the ratification of treaties.

The Reform programme was endorsed by leadership of the Civil Service, the Cabinet Secretary and Head of the Civil Service.

Bello who also retained three old permanent secretaries said the appointments were made in furtherance of the ongoing reform of the state civil service.

«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»

They include # 3.4 billion by reducing the size of the Civil Service and reforming Civil Service pensions; # 3.8 billion by linking together departments to buy goods and services and enforcing controls on recruitment and use of consultants; and # 0.6 billion by exiting 500,000 square metres of property.

Finally, it must be clarified whether the stipulated reforms should be realized with the help of civil service law or general employment law.

Law professor at the University of South Carolina whose current research focuses on constitutional law and public education, Derek Black has written about charter schools in the context of education reform, civil rights, and service of the public priorities.

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As a coalition of over 200 civil rights, consumer, labor, business, investor, faith - based, and civic and community groups, Americans for Financial Reform supports the Department of Education's announcement last month of a new competition for student loan servicing contracts.

«GAP helped design some of the most noteworthy Watergate reforms,» Clark says, «including the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978.»

Within his rights to do so according to the Civil Service Reform Act and the Whistleblower Protection Act, Pat alleged a substantial and specific danger to public health and safety and gross mismanagement by officials at the DOE, NOAA, NWS and NCRFC because of their refusal to acknowledge the realities of climate change.

However, he argued that the court should dispose of the case because the plaintiffs failed to exhaust their remedies under the Civil Service Reform Act, which required plaintiffs to first bring their claims to the Office of Special Counsel.

The future Earlier this year, Jack Straw announced the publication of a draft Constitutional Renewal Bill, which laid out a series of proposals including clarifying the role of the attorney general in respect of managing prosecutions, abolishing nolle prosequi, and reforming both judicial appointments procedure and the civil service.

Today, in coalition with BC Civil Liberties Association, Pivot Legal Society, and Community Legal Assistance Society, West Coast LEAF held a press conference to announce our list of comprehensive recommendations to reform BC's justice system in service of building a more just, equal, and inclusive province.

In coalition with BC Civil Liberties Association, Pivot Legal Society, and Community Legal Assistance Society, West Coast LEAF published a list of comprehensive recommendations to reform BC's justice system in service of a more just, equal, and inclusive province.

According to recent research, voters want civil justice reform and strongly support a wide range of services to enable everyone to get access to the information and effective assistance they need when they need it and in a form they can use.

Those recommendations include «The Court should form a standing committee to maintain accountability for closing the justice gap and to monitor the effectiveness of reform initiatives,» «The Court should encourage the State Bar of Texas, the Texas Access to Justice Commission, and local bar associations to create pipelines of services for modest - means clients,» and «A primary objective of future rulemaking projects should be to make the civil justice system more accessible to modest - means clients.»

Finally, of all the recently adopted or proposed regulatory reforms with respect to legal services common to these four countries, many believe that alternative structures offer one of the most significant vehicles for addressing the shortfall (or, in the US, the dearth) of affordable and accessible civil justice.

Previously, she practiced corporate commercial litigation in Vancouver for 14 years, worked inhouse for 6 years specializing in legal services management and, most recently, provided support to the Civil Justice Reform Working Group and the initiative to create a new set of Supreme Court Civil Rules in British Columbia.

A more accurate model is: politics is a system that 1) selects against skills needed for rigorous thinking and for qualities such as groupthink and confirmation bias, 2) incentivises a badly selected set of people to consider their career not the public interest, 3) drops them into dysfunctional institutions with no relevant training and poor tools, 4) centralises vast amounts of power in the hands of these people and institutions in ways we know are bound to cause huge errors, and 5) provides very weak (and often damaging) feedback so facing reality is rare, learning is practically impossible, and system reform is seen as a hostile act by political parties and civil services worldwide.

Due to the level of responsibility, SES members must be «of the highest quality,» per the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978.