In May 2022, Boris Johnson announced he would cut civil service numbers by 91,000, and in October 2023, Jeremy Hunt unveiled an immediate cap on numbers as he pledged to cut the civil service by ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States and arguably the most dedicated to reforming the operations of the government, died on Dec. 29 at his home in Plains, Georgia. He was 100. Carter ...

Public service reform lies at the heart of sustainable governance, and in Sokoto State that commitment has taken a more deliberate and focused shape under Governor Ahmed Aliyu. His recent redeployment ...

As I noted in my first installment, there’s a lot going on in the federal civil service world these days—that includes most of “what” the Trump Administration is trying to accomplish in that regard, ...

President-elect Trump’s vow to fire the Justice Department lawyers pursuing the prosecution of him certainly puts into sharp relief the question of civil service reform. It’s part of a gathering storm ...

DRACUT — Recent changes to the state’s Civil Service law mean that Dracut must take steps to bring the Police Department to parity with surrounding communities, Deputy Police Chief David Chartrand ...

For a second year in a row, a contested effort to change the constitution to give state lawmakers more power over Louisiana’s civil service system is underway. Sen. Jay Morris, R-West Monroe, is again ...

We are about to embark on a historic effort to reform the government to bend it to the will of a president. This isn’t the first effort at reform, but this may be the first time its purpose is to ...

The federal civil service, which has many virtues, is also a bit of a mess. This is not only my view but that of almost every former Democratic administration official I know, going back to President ...

The party has pledged to create a new criminal offence of “dishonestly determining an asylum claim”, punishable by up to two ...

After President James A. Garfield was assassinated in 1881, Congress passed and President Chester A. Arthur signed the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act into law in 1883. Before the Pendleton Act, ...