Sentences with phrase «senior public servant»

«Erin has also heard via Tim from me the pressure we're under and some concerns post-Gitxaala that the process towards decision is moving fast and that departments are still in active response and meeting mode (in particular MPMO in its role as coordinator of a WoG approach, and TC as the regulatory lead for marine safety),» wrote the senior public servant to colleagues from the other departments.

If you're 25 years from tapping your savings, or if you're a senior public servant, you can keep a large portion of your portfolio in stocks.

One senior public servant — a man of no political party, and who had previously been on the fence — texted me after the US intervention and said he had been so outraged at President Obama's «back of the queue» remark that he had instantly decided to vote Leave.

Paul Boothe, a former senior public servant who now is a professor at the University of Western Ontario's Ivey Business School, chastised «amateur» deputy ministers for making a fuss over a contingency that amounts to a sliver of the total budget.

This may mark the end of a career for one of Syracuse's most senior public servants.

The statistics keep changing, the series aren't the same, the functions and the roles keep altering and nothing is constant — particularly not the people who run the machine, for ministers and now senior public servants too live in a «here today gone tomorrow» world where they're no sooner settled in than they're out.

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.

The chancellor, Alistair Darling, has written to salary review bodies calling for a pay freeze for 40,000 senior public servants in 2010 - 11.

Senior public servants warned the Trudeau government in 2016 of concerns that its consultations with First Nations on the Trans Mountain expansion pipeline were «moving fast» — comparing the process to mistakes that led to the failure of another west coast pipeline, says a newly - released internal email.

This is in addition to an investigation conducted by the Alberta Commissioner, the report for which was released this week (see PIPEDA and Canadian Privacy Law: Alberta Commissioner releases report on incident involving sensitive info of senior public servants).

However, the senior public servants of the Australian Health Ministers» Advisory Council, who were

Real estate agents finished below senior public servants (50 per cent), journalists (49 per cent), lawyers (48 per cent) and insurance brokers (46 per cent).

Not exact matches

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.

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.

• Policymakers at all levels, from local to national • Civil servants, public affairs professionals, campaigners and senior journalists from all of Britain's newspapers and broadcasters • Politically interested members of the public (ABC1 adults and millennials)- think regular watchers of Newsnight and Question Time • Academics and students.

The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, on Tuesday, flayed the statement credited to the former Senior Special Assistant to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan on Public Affairs, Doyin Okupe, that governors should sack civil servants to resolve the irregular salaries payment crisis, describing the call as «absurd».

«Isn't this part of a much bigger issue which is there is growing anger in what she calls the court of public opinion not just about the pension and renumeration of what are now public sector employees but about other public sector fat cats including senior civil servants and dare I say it ministers about their very lavish and generous pension?»

Papers released under a freedom of information request reveal one of the MoD's top civil servants told senior industry figures the government had already decided to replace its nuclear munitions despite public assurances that no decision had been taken from defence secretary Des Browne.

Placing a team of politician ministers on top of the existing hierarchy of the ministries will lead to unnecessary duplication of senior personnel and eventually undermine the authority of the professional senior civil and public servants (particularly, chief directors and directors) in the same ministries; it will also encourage the politicisation of the bureaucracy.

And if senior civil servants believe that they shouldn't be in the public spotlight - for example, by being grilled by Select Committees - they shouldn't write public tributes, not even to Margaret Thatcher.

Likewise, the redoubtable Margaret Hodge's Public Accounts Committee has made senior civil servants and outsourcing company chief executives squirm with her aggressive questioning and well - targeted inquiries.

Strangely, however, the Senior Minister's two sons, who were not in the state employment, were placed at top executive positions, whilst insisting that Akufo - Addo government does not have the capacity to employ more public servants, despite job promises to the electorates during the 2016 election campaign.

«The problem with Boris Johnson's statement is not that he's arguing with other politicians only, he's directly being contradicted by a very senior, respected public servant who's got nothing to do with politics,» Cable said.

However, the FDA union, which represents senior civil servants, has accused the Government of «failing to equip» public servants tasked with delivering a «brighter future» for the UK outside the EU.

Jonathan Baume, general secretary of FDA, which represents senior civil and public servants agreed recruitment freezes were an «imperfect tool» - although he said the civil service has been «a bit hasty at times in recruiting externally when there are good people internally».

«About 20 per cent of public sector investment is actually invested directly in the public sector and large proportions of public sector budgets go on employing public servants to deliver vital frontline services,» said Nicola Smith, senior policy officer at the TUC.

There are senior political leaders who are perceived to be treated with soft gloves but, most recently, efforts have been announced to address public service corruption so prevalent in South Africa.There are talks to introduce legislation to prohibit public servants doing business with the state, which Vos calls «a very important step that should come in 2014.»

Blaming a public servant — even one as senior and reputedly influential as Professor Halton — for a bad Government decision not only lets Minister Peter Dutton off the hook on this issue, it undermines the fundamental accountability of the Government.

Tanner said he put into action both his training as a lawyer and experience as a senior South Australian public servant, trawling the internet to explain her symptoms, including through a range of diagnostic tools:

Another session this year will be the Mentoring Workshop, facilitated by AIDA's new CEO, Kate Thomann, who, as a senior Commonwealth public servant, supported a number of key federal Indigenous health initiatives, including the Standing Council for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health; the National Indigenous Drug Advisory Council; the National Indigenous Health Equality Council and the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Council.

He has 30 years of experience in public policy roles on Parliament Hill, as a senior federal public servant and in government relations for Bayer and the Chemistry Industry Association.