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 ...

A proposed constitutional amendment would give Louisiana lawmakers new authority to remove jobs from the state’s protected civil service system, while also shortening terms and tightening limits for ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...