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Civil servants in some of the biggest Whitehall departments are taking an average of more than eight days off work every year due to sickness.
telegraph.co.uk (1 month and 22 days ago)
The Government is facing a strike by civil servants after they voted in favour of industrial action.
sky.com (2 months and 24 days ago)

Britain’s two most senior civil servants have been accused of “prostituting” their office and “deserting political neutrality” by writing a fulsome public tribute to Baroness Thatcher following her death.
independent.co.uk (1 month and 7 days ago)
Whitehall’s most senior civil servants have been told they will have to work a little harder and take fewer holidays under plans to shake up their terms and conditions.
independent.co.uk (1 month and 14 days ago)
"This is the nationalization of the elite," is how one ex-Kremlin-ite described Putin's new policy. "For [years], the elite saw Russia as a hunting ground - they would keep their money and live somewhere else," but no more, as the FT reports, Putin has moved to inject some moral fibre into the country’s top-level bureaucrats and state employees by giving them a three-month...
zerohedge.com (1 month and 22 days ago)

Britain’s most senior civil servants should no longer be asked to investigate accusations of ministerial misconduct because they do not have the “powers” to get to the truth, the former Cabinet Secretary, Lord Robin Butler, has suggested.
independent.co.uk (1 month and 13 days ago)
Parliament to adopt law providing for dismissal of 15,000 public service staff.
businessspectator.com.au (27 days ago)

A power grab by the bean-counters in the Cabinet Office has other civil servants in uproar, says Sue Cameron
telegraph.co.uk (18 days ago)
At lunchtime today, as millions of people are stuck at their desks, thousands of civil servants across Whitehall will be...
thetimes.co.uk (2 months and 1 day ago)

The late Baroness Thatcher was a master of detail who insisted the civil service must do more than manage Britain's decline, write Sir Jeremy Heywood and Sir Bob Kerslake.
telegraph.co.uk (1 month and 10 days ago)
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