Any set of civil service reforms should be all about policy and not partisan politics, about accountability to the rule of law and regulation, not someone’s personal agenda.

Civil Service spends more than £27million of taxpayers money on equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives in one year. By CLAIRE ELLICOTT and HARRIET LINE and GREG HEFFER. Published: 19:33 ...

Today’s civil service is the product of hard-fought reforms advocated for by working people in the 19th and 20th centuries to eliminate incompetence, corruption, ...

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 ...

Civil service protection is a bedrock principle of how our federal government works. It dates back to 1883, and over 140 years we have generally broadened and strengthened those protections.

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.

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a professional, merit-based civil service since shortly after the Civil War.

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. As ...

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 c… ...

West Virginia 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 ...

Rachel Reeves has told Sky's Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips that she is "confident" the civil service can be reduced by 10,000 people. The FDA union says the government needs to be honest ...

Civil service departments will first have to reduce administrative budgets by 10%, which is expected to save £1.5bn a year by 2028-29. The following year, the reduction should be 15%, ...