After 34 years, they’re bringing back the civil service exam. Even as the government ... Right now, most applicants work through USAJobs, the government’s online portal, and are asked to ...

Civil service is another term for “professional workforce” and we want this in government, right? And yet, as I write this, our government is being taken over by the opposite kind of worker.

If that happens and they are stripped of the protections that civil service workers enjoy, the lawyer worries about being able to give their honest appraisal of the matters before them.

The Sacramento Bee’s State Worker pay database has been updated with data for 2023. The state paid roughly 266,000 civil service employees a total of about $24.4 billion in the 2023 calendar ...