Madison Township is looking at abolishing civil service testing as a requirement for police-officer applicants. Township government officials noted that civil service testing has become a hindrance in ...

The executive director of the Columbus Civil Service Commission is recommending the city cease what has been one of her agency's main functions for over a century: the filling of nonpolitical ...

As community focus on police reform continues, more Somerville residents want to know how the city hires its police. Right now, the City Council is reviewing appointments to the police reserve list, a ...

TAUNTON — The Attorney General's office has sued former Taunton Fire Chief Leman Padelford, accusing him of dodging subpoenas as the state investigates his firefighter test prep company. The state ...

Boston firefighters are suing the state’s civil-service office and appealing to the commission in an effort to persuade a judge to force the recently scuttled test to go ahead. Four Boston jakes filed ...

President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are working to dramatically reduce the size of the federal civil service. They have already laid off numerous government employees who work on issues ranging from ...

Earlier this year President Trump dealt another blow to the civil service with an executive order establishing a new “Schedule G” classification expanding the number of political appointments in ...

The New York State Department of Civil Service (DCS) has released applications for New York’s entry-level civil service exams through February. The open-competitive exams are an opportunity to start a ...

The hosts of the Throughline podcast bring us the story of how a presidential assassination gave rise to the modern federal civil service. The federal government is the largest employer in the U.S., ...

Frisco voters will decide in an upcoming local election whether or not the city's firefighters should have civil service protections and collective bargaining rights. The firefighters at Frisco Fire ...