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We have all dedicated ourselves to seeing the ranks of the federal career civil service remain nonpartisan but still accountable to democratically elected leaders. More importantly, we have heard ...
President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are working to dramatically reduce the size of the federal civil service. They have already laid off numerous government employees who work on issues ranging ...
The phrase “good enough for government work” has long been used to cast doubt on government and civil service workers. The League of Women Voters recently considered the problem at our 2025 ...
He could severely weaken, if not dismantle, our system of civil service protection, which he took a first step toward weakening during his first term. He could severely weaken, if not dismantle ...
Buried in more than 1,000 pages of legislative text is Section 90002, a provision that strikes at the heart of the professional, nonpartisan civil service. It proposes a 9.4 percent salary ...
MORE than 80,000 civil service jobs should be scrapped to save taxpayers £5billion a year, a report has urged. The efficiency plan - backed by former top mandarins - includes slashing ...
With several Massachusetts municipalities opting out of the civil service and many more considering that route, something had to be done to update a system clearly out of step with the times.
His executive order removes civil service protections for some federal employees, making it easier to fire them. The order says those workers “must be accountable to the President,” who is ...
Gov. Patrick Morrisey has signed into law legislation he requested that strips many state workers of civil service status and access to grievance procedures, moves feared to erode job security and ...
The chancellor has said she is "confident" 10,000 civil service jobs can be axed after numbers ballooned during the pandemic - as she seeks to cut more than £2bn from the budget. Rachel Reeves ...