civil service

Critics, including labor unions and civil service advocates, have called the firings unlawful and politically driven.

Though he had been in the civil service for more than two years, a recent promotion designated him as a probationary worker—a category of staff among the first targeted for layoffs.

At the conference, her party has pledged to save £47bn a year from cuts to welfare, the civil service and foreign aid, if it gets back into government.

They want to shrink the state by around £50bn by cutting benefits, cutting foreign aid and cutting the civil service.

Shockingly, it also found that the government, civil service and NHS, over decades tried to cover up and deny this.