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 ...

In 1895, science fiction writer H.G. Wells introduced the world to the concept of time travel. Pick a time, he told his dinner guests in The Time Machine, and manipulate a lever in his machine: “this ...

From right, Commissioners Codi Plaisance and D. Scott Hughes, listen to testimony at a Louisiana State Civil Service Commission meeting on Feb. 5, 2025. (Photo: Wes Muller/Louisiana Illuminator) Gov.

The federal civil service system that has provided employees comfort, and sometimes frustration, for 60 years might not last another one in its current form. By early summer, the Obama administration ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! University of Richmond history professor Eric Yellin talked about the spoils system that existed before the formation of the modern day civil service ...

By bringing these lessons together, and by restoring an institutional home for leadership development through a new School of ...