The federal government’s core civilian workforce has long been known for its professionalism. About 2.1 million nonpartisan career officials provide essential public services in such diverse areas as ...

Reading the new white paper by the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, “Growing A Stronger Federal Cyber Workforce,” triggered memories of the 1976 movie Network when an aging TV anchorman tells the ...

In the boiling debate over the federal civil service system, a congressionally chartered think tank offers this stark assessment: “The federal civil service system is broken. This breakdown undermines ...

Last week President Trump issued three executive orders designed to reform the Civil Service System. The orders streamline the process of removing federal employees from service who are not performing ...

A Senate panel that has promised bipartisan civil service reform heard from agencies and good-government groups on what those changes might look like at a roundtable discussion Thursday, though many ...

In 1883, the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act was signed into law by Republican president Chester A. Arthur, putting an end to the so-called spoils system that allowed presidents to reward political ...

To the editor: Doyle McManus makes the case against depriving the federal workforce of civil service protection. He fails to deal with the problem of how to terminate incompetent federal employees.

Trump v. Slaughter came in conjunction with other recent rulings by the Supreme Court diminishing civil service protection.

BOSTON (SHNS) – A bill is expected next week from the Joint Committee on Public Service proposing reforms to the state’s 140-year-old civil service law that governs how jobs at police, fire, and other ...