Washington Monthly2d
Civil Service Reform Act of 1978
It violates statutes, undoes a century of civil service reform, and would derail government services. The Washington Monthly is an independent voice, listened to by insiders and willing to take on ...
The civil service was once politicized. Then a president was assassinated.
Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...
Stars and Stripes6dOpinion
Federal workforce needs reform, but Trump can’t do it
It’s clear that Trump’s goal is not to make the civil service better or more responsive or to enact any kind of systemic ...
Government Executive21d
How a pair of executive orders and a memo could fast track the civil service’s politicization
Good government experts warn that President Trump’s revival of Schedule F, inserting new criteria into the hiring process and ...
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Carter pushed government reform and shaped the federal workforce
Although federal unions sometimes had differences with Carter, the National Treasury Employees Union mourned his Dec. 29 death, praising him for “the milestone Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 ...
The Hill24d
I’ve seen government reform work, but only with experienced civil servants
The Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 created a nonpartisan service ... Bush in 1973, and Jimmy Carter in 1978 when the Office of Personnel Management was created. The Hatch Act of 1939 prohibits ...