Sean Higgins, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, gave a cautious view of why "Career/Policy," formerly called Schedule F, could work.

Government accountability watcher Joe Spielberger, of the Project on Government Oversight, said that he's against the new "policy/career" job classification.

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Hong Kong will not pursue legislation criminalising insults to civil servants, the government has said, noting the lack of overseas examples for such a law and that existing regulations already ...

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Cabinet Office minister introduces rules that make senior mandarins personally responsible for securing value for money for the taxpayer Civil servant chiefs could face the sack if they do not ...

The change, which would see top mandarins held personally responsible for achieving savings in their departments, are part of a number of reforms to how the Civil Service manages performance. This ...