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 ...

Last week, Neil O’Brien, who is leading the Tories’ work on policy development, shone a much-needed spotlight on one of the ...

Montgomery County adopted its civil service rules to set up a grievance process for employees who are suspended, demoted or fired. "These are the three things that are complained about by employees," ...

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 ...

With several Massachusetts municipalities opting out of the civil service and many more considering that route, something had to be done to update a system clearly out of step with the times. As of ...

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 ...

After Gov. Jeff Landry earlier this month attempted to remove civil service protections for hundreds of engineers and attorneys across state government, a broader effort to give Louisiana elected ...