Civil service

The term civil service can refer to either a branch of governmental service in which individuals are employed (hired) on the basis of professional merit as proven by competitive examinations; or the body of employees in any government agency apart from the military, which is a separate extension of any national government.

A civil servant or public servant is a person in the public sector employed for a government department or agency. The extent of civil servants of a state as part of the "civil service" varies from country to country. In the United Kingdom, for instance, only Crown (national government) employees are referred to as civil servants whereas county or city employees are not.

Many consider the study of service to be a part of the field of public administration. Workers in "non-departmental public bodies" (sometimes called "QUANGOs") may also be classed as civil servants for the purpose of statistics and possibly for their terms and conditions. Collectively a state's civil servants form its civil service or public service.

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Civil servants being taught to use AI

Ekathimerini 27 Jul 2024
A total of 1,300 civil servants have attended two seminars on artificial intelligence (AI) conducted by Google ... More seminars, open to all civil servants, even those without computing experience, will take place in September....
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Ambreen Jan appointed federal information secretary

The News International 27 Jul 2024
federal information secretary Ambreen Jan seen in this image. — Website moib/file. ISLAMABAD. The federal government has appointed Ambreen Jan as Federal Secretary for Information and Broadcasting with an immediate effect. Jan has assumed her new responsibilities ... Her appointment has been made under Section 10 of the Civil Servants Act 1973 ... ....
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Haisla blaze a path for Indigenous industry

North Shore News 27 Jul 2024
Compared to the nearby $18 billion LNG Canada complex on which it will piggyback, the $5.5 billion Cedar LNG project in Kitimat is small ... They’re terrified of that risk aspect ... government civil servant who now blogs about public policy issues, thinks the project may require government  backing ... to the coast ...  . ....
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Now switch off at work...unless you

The Daily Mail 26 Jul 2024
Labour will not give the civil servants implementing their ‘right to switch off’ policy the chance to enjoy it themselves — despite demanding it from firms all over the country ... Labour will not give the civil servants implementing their ‘right to switch off’ policy the chance to enjoy it themselves (File image of Whitehall)....
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UN Human Rights Committee raises concerns over discrimination against minorities in India

Madhyamam 26 Jul 2024
In its report, the committee highlighted the need for India to increase public awareness and provide training to civil servants, law enforcement, the judiciary, and community ......
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Luxon urges witnesses to alleged '80s paedophile ring to come forward

Otago Daily Times 26 Jul 2024
Christopher Luxon. Photo. RNZ. Prime minister Christopher Luxon says anyone with evidence about claims of a paedophile ring involving politicians and civil servants in the 1980s should go to police ... ....
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Ambreen Jan appointed Federal Secretary Information and Broadcasting

Urdu Point 26 Jul 2024
... and Broadcasting.</p><p>Her appointment was made under Section 10 of the Civil Servants Act, 1973, the notification added.</p> ....
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J.D. Vance Suggested Purging the Federal Workforce

Political Wire 26 Jul 2024
... it would be ‘fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state....
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VAT rate for hospitality sector

The Irish Times 26 Jul 2024
The Tax Strategy Group is a gathering of civil servants who are responsible for implementing rather than proposing any tax policy. They can neither torpedo nor launch anything ... READ MORE. Johnny McEntee ... ....
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Trump’s second-term agenda plans a purge of the federal workforce

The Spokesman-Review 26 Jul 2024
JD Vance (Ohio), the Republican vice-presidential nominee, were to give Trump “one piece of advice,” he said in 2021, it would be “fire every single mid-level bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state ... Importantly, civil service due process protects not just ......
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Aruna Roy – “The demonising of activists is unfortunate for the nation”

Hindustan Times 26 Jul 2024
There have been exceptional civil servants who have managed to keep people’s faith alive – like the famous late SR Sankaran of the Andhra Cadre. When he passed away, civil servants rubbed shoulders with people’s movements and all political parties assembled together to say goodbye to a great Indian....
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QUENTIN LETTS: Socialist Britain has a new official language - but it

The Daily Mail 26 Jul 2024
Here at Westminster, where flag-waving children line the boulevards to celebrate socialism's triumph and civil servants dance at maypoles to the bark of Garrison Sergeant Major Sue Gray, English has been replaced as the official language ... Like McFadden and Gould she read the replies prepared for her by her civil servants....
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An Arab Spring in Bangladesh?

The New Arab 26 Jul 2024
To be sure, Bangladesh’s public-sector workforce has expanded over the past two decades, and civil servants have received steady raises and improved benefits ... The rising cost of living and rampant corruption by Public Service Commission officials responsible for civil-servant recruitment have further added to the society-wide discontent....
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