Sentences with phrase «on all civil servants in»

He trashes the Treasury forecasts and turns on the civil servants in the department that he led for a decade.

The All Progressives Congress, Osun State chapter, has called on civil servants in the state to exercise patience with Governor Rauf Aregbesola over their unpaid salaries...

Abdullahi called on all civil servants in Kogi to raise their heads above the parody of bags of rice from the Senators, restating their absolute support for the recall of Senator Dino Melaye by his constituents.

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

Wouldn't all that time on planes and in briefings be better spent digging through tax returns or talking to disgruntled civil servants elsewhere?

In that regard, here's an interesting story about a civil servant in Connellsville, Penn., who successfully appealed her dismissal, on the grounds that the right process hadn't been followeIn that regard, here's an interesting story about a civil servant in Connellsville, Penn., who successfully appealed her dismissal, on the grounds that the right process hadn't been followein Connellsville, Penn., who successfully appealed her dismissal, on the grounds that the right process hadn't been followed.

Greek ferry, bus and train services were disrupted and civil servants and doctors stopped work in nationwide walkout on Wednesday, as lawmakers debated austerity measures that lenders want the indebted country to implement.

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.»

Thus a teacher is not and never can be a civil servant... Whatever authority he may possess to teach and control children, and to claim their respect and obedience, comes to him from God, through the parents and not through the State, except in so far as the State is acting on behalf of the parents.

Samuel Pepys (pronounced Peeps) was a successful seventeenth - century British civil servant who chronicled nearly every day of his life for almost nine straight years, from 1660 to 1669, including his business interest in ships and the British navy, his run - ins with the nobility, his merry meals with friends and family, his nightly prayers, and his «towsing» (ruffling up, disheveling) of women other than his wife (the latter two activities often on the same day).

The governor spoke in Ado Ekiti, on Tuesday during a meeting with civil servants on grade levels one to seven in the state civil service.

This article is based on conversations with Catherine Barnard, professor of EU Law at the University of Cambridge, Anand Menon, professor of European Politics and Foreign Affairs at King's College London and director of UK in a Changing Europe, Steve Peers, professor of EU, Human Rights and World Trade Law at the University of Essex, Amy Porges, adviser and government representative on WTO negotiations and litigation and free trade agreements, John Springford, director of Research at the Centre for European Reform and other politicians, trade negotiators, civil servants and officials in London, Washington and Brussels who asked not to be named.

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.

The film is subtle in its appreciation of Mandela's abiding greatness: his popular and personal touch, showing how he insisted on having white protection officers among suspicious black ones and in keeping on the white civil servants who had served his white predecessor and who feared the sack from their new black president.

The Commons» leading civil servant has sent a clear signal he backs abortive plans to give more power to backbench MPs, in an unusual break from his silence on the issue.

«What has changed is that over the past decade, certainly on the economic agenda, we've built a very robust evidence base which civil servants in the Treasury, for example, have accepted.

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Turley was formerly a civil servant, initially working on youth crime issues, and later moved to the Department for Work and Pensions specialising in child poverty issues.

The announcement comes as pressure grows on ministers to scrap a deal struck with civil servants in October, which allows existing workers to retire on a full pension at the age of 60, although new employees would have to work until 65.

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.

Civil servants in the Public and Commercial Services union will be taking part in a public sector strike on the 10th July after voting to strike over pay.

Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude said fewer than 20 % of civil servants were on strike today compared with a third in the last big walkout in 2011.

«It exposes in a very stark way that the present conventions on accountability between civil servants and ministers to Parliament and the public aren't working,» PAC chair Margaret Hodge told Today.

And no, I'm not bashing civil servants — everyone in my family took tests and sat on lists and didn't get «appointed» based on who they know.

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.

But it is thought that in several of these files the civil servants have thought it necessary to include options that do go against the grain of what the party leaders have been campaigning on - because they are not convinced the total number of cuts can be achieved unless the politicians eat their words.

Given that most families in states depend on their civil servant relations, defying all odds to ensure a good treatment of the workforce is almost a sure guarantee for a return to office for a political leader.

«The political leaders of Kogi State and the APC stakeholders have resolved unequivocally to give 4 weeks ultimatum to Governor Yahaya Bello, to reconcile the ongoing staff audit in the state with the realities on ground, pay our civil servants, the pensioners and others,» APC said.

The Federal Government on Thursday arraigned a federal civil servant, Mr. Ibrahim Tumsah and his brother, Mr. Tijani Tumsah, before the Federal High Court in Abuja with failure to declare their assets to the Chief Okoi Obono - Obla - led Special Presidential Investigation Panel on the Recovery of Public Property.

«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 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 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.

Just over seven in ten (71 %) of Lib Dem rebellions in the last session were on social policy (broadly defined), such as the various increases and extensions in VAT, the introduction of free schools and the expansion of academies, and curbs to legal aid and superannuation for civil servants.

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...

Similarly, a civil servant in Abuja, Mr Uche Chinedu, said it was unfortunate that such government decision on Magu was brought to the public.

We lost more people on 9/11, in part because we are such a civil - servant - oriented borough.

Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello has labeled the workers who are on strike in his state as «political civil servants.»

«The boards» independent status sat uncomfortably with a reliance on civil servants who are, in effect, acting for the secretary of state.

Bent on getting many of his tribesmen, cronies and family into his already oversize government, MrAkufo - Addo, sources in government disclosed to TheaL - hAJJ, was persuaded to appoint an above - the - age retired Civil Servant as head of the nation's exchequer even though he was «disqualified» from occupying that position.

Jonathan Baume, general secretary of senior public servants» union the FDA, will argue in a speech in central London that ministers should be included in the capability reviews currently only carried out on civil servants.

Guidance on the conduct of civil servants in the pre-election period (often referred to as «purdah»).

Their one - year - on report on the civil service reform plan has been unusually honest about the areas where change is not taking place - in a bid to embarrass civil servants into getting on with the reforms.

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.

Civil servants delicately put together the bill and insisted on it being passed in identical form in each country, out of fear of different states ending up with different monarchs.

According to Melaye, the donations were made in response to his clarion call on his colleagues to assist in cushioning the effect of hardship the civil servants who were yet - to - be paid their salaries for over 22 months

The main civil servants» union, the Public and Commercial Services union, which took joint strike action on 30 June, has described Labour leader Ed Miliband's refusal to support public sector workers taking action over cuts in their pensions as «a slap in the face».

The crown prosecution service subsequently confirmed no charges would be brought against Mr Green, although the civil servant who passed on information to him was sacked following a disciplinary hearing in April this year.

«It is counter-productive for politicians and civil servants to engage in mutual scapegoating based on half - truths and myths which ignore what is really happening,» the IfG, headed by Peter Riddell, said.

Members of the union will join firefighters, civil servants and local government staff in the protest on Thursday, part of a dispute over pay and other issues.