As director of the U.S. Foreign Service Institute and as senior vice president of the National Defense University, I was responsible for training military and civilian officers from more than 50 ...

Civil servants shows they feel stifled by cumbersome processes, weak talent progression and ineffective procurement, ...

For the last 23 years, the Partnership for Public Service has run an annual award, known as the Sammies, for civil servants who, in their words, “have helped our government innovate, save lives ...

P resident Donald Trump and Elon Musk are working to dramatically reduce the size of the federal civil service. They have already laid off numerous government employees who work on issues ranging ...

Although always stable, the uniformity of civil service employment in the 1960s, 70s and early 80s didn't encourage innovation, initiative and professional development beyond the job at hand.

Benefits Available to All Veterans -- Even if You Don't Buy Back Military Service Credits. All veterans may be eligible to receive certain benefits when they join the civil service.

The CSRS provided pension and disability benefits for most U.S. civilian service employees working for the federal government. It was replaced in 1987.

It wants to move more civil servants out of London, relocating 12,000 jobs to, among others, Manchester, Cardiff, Birmingham and Aberdeen (this is a recurring theme of reform efforts since the 1980s).

And in subsequent decades, they added civil service protections for more workers, and it grew and grew and grew. ARABLOUEI: At first, the Pendleton Act only covered about 10% of federal jobs - a ...