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 service wants to keep staff in office three days a week

The Times/The Sunday Times 21 Sep 2024
Top civil servants have pushed to keep a rule requiring staff to be in the office three days a week, saying it is needed to prevent permanent home working ... UK. Politics. Related articles ... Alex Ralph ... Jessica Sharkey ... ....
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PM takes notice of officers evading training courses

The News International 21 Sep 2024
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif. — AFP/File. ISLAMABAD ... The prime minister has directed all ministries/ divisions and provincial governments to strictly follow the training rules ... .Under Rule 22 of the Civil Servants Promotion Rules 2019, the nomination of any officer can be deferred only once on the request of the ministry/ division concerned ... ....
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Angry words in the garden. Then Sue Gray stomped off with a face like thunder. ...

The Daily Mail 21 Sep 2024
The most senior civil servant in the land, Case is embroiled in an acrimonious turf war with Gray, who wants him to leave Downing Street ... Gray is one of the four-strong committee which sets the pay of ­political appointees; the other three are civil servants....
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When victory is its own worst enemy

Herald-Standard 21 Sep 2024
A prospective second Trump administration has plans to strip perhaps as many as 50,000 federal civil servants of employment protection, claims an analysis by the nonprofit Protect Democracy ... Trump and his men, an Associated Press story surmises, intend to “take a wrecking ball to what they call the deep-state bureaucracy… ... ....
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Sleaze, quarrels and austerity: Labour is looking a lot like the Tories

The Times/The Sunday Times 21 Sep 2024
They added that part of the reason why other advisers had had their pay cut was because Labour was paying more than the existing civil service bands would allow ... The Times has been told that advisers to Angela Rayner, the deputy prime minister, are leading the push for recognition with the FDA, which represents senior civil servants ... UK. Politics ... ....
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Local government fatcats are bleeding the taxpayer dry

AOL 20 Sep 2024
The argument goes that if we want world class civil servants, we need to offer world class pay ... Recent TaxPayers’ Alliance research found that between March 2023 and March 2024 civil service employment increased by 23,060, from 519,780 to 542,840 ... The number of civil servants with salaries over £100,000 increased by 42.5 per cent....
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RAY MASSEY: Job titles impact car insurance prices

This is Money 20 Sep 2024
HGV drivers (£580) are quoted premiums as much as 41 per cent less than the average followed by civil servants ......
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Ukraine bans officials, military personnel from using Telegram app on official devices

Anadolu Agency 20 Sep 2024
The National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine has banned military personnel and civil servants from using the Telegram messaging app on official devices, says an ......
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Project 2025 vs. the Constitution | PennLive letters

Penn Live 20 Sep 2024
Higher civil servants should be replaced by ideologues committed to these policies, and they should be pushed through, with or without a legal basis ... That is not how the constitution sets up our government ... .......
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How Alia is Inspiring a Generation in Benue

This Day 20 Sep 2024
Civil servants wallowed in misery as their wages were delayed and they were left to their sad fate, unable to cater for the needs of their families nor their health ... Plugging out leakages in government’s revenue, the amiable governor started offsetting the backlog of arrears of salaries, pensions and other emoluments of civil servants....
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7 die in Portugal’s more than 100 wildfires

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 20 Sep 2024
Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro declared a state of calamity for the hardest-hit areas late on Tuesday, invoking powers to mobilize more firefighters and civil servants ... "The thick smoke produced by most of these fires is making it very difficult for air units to operate," said Civil Protection official André Fernandes....
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UK should show EU it wants closer ties, says think tank

China Daily 20 Sep 2024
The United Kingdom should commit to improving relations with the European Union, an influential trade policy think tank says ... "Emotions around the UK's departure from the EU are far from healed, and this scarring is damaging the prospects," David Henig, a former civil servant and trade policy expert and author of the road map, told The Guardian ... ....
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