It's just that the Democratic Senate's version offers civil-service protection to the department's 170, 000 employees.

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Banding is used today in the San Francisco Police Department and in many civil service jobs in Alabama, Kentucky and other states.

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Sir David, who has been in the civil service for 37 years, was also permanent secretary at the Department for Education and Skills.

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Officials from the Internal Revenue Service and Department of Justice announced Tuesday that the government has filed civil cases against the Jackson Hewitt franchises, as well as 24 franchise employees in federal courts in Chicago, Atlanta, Detroit and Raleigh, N.

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Eight hundred civil service jobs are to be moved to the north west from Belfast as the agricultural department is moving its headquarters to Ballykelly.

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The role as head of the civil service will be hived off, after a competition, to a top mandarin running a government department.

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