scholarly journals The Public-Service Employment Program

1986 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-307
Author(s):  
R F Cook
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Service Employment ◽  
Employment Program ◽  
And Training ◽  
Field Network ◽  
Service Employment

In this paper, a four-year field network study of the public-service employment program under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act is described. The emphasis of the study was on displacement—the extent to which states and local governments used federally subsidized workers in place of locally funded workers. A description of the field network methodology is also included.

The Process of Program Phaseout: An Examination of the Dismantling of the US Public Service Employment Program

1983 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-298
Author(s):  
S A MacManus
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Time Frame ◽  
Federal Grant ◽  
Public Service Employment ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Employment Program ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Service Employment ◽  
Program Expansion

This article examines the dynamics of the dismantling of a large US federal grant-in-aid program, the Public Service Employment Program (PSEP), to determine whether the same factors that affect program expansion affect program contraction, and in a similar manner. Specifically, an examination is made of: (1) the impact local fiscal and political pressures have on the reactions of three groups of local policymakers (elected officials; PSEP administrators; administrators of agencies employing PSEP workers); and (2) the relationship between these policymakers' reactions and changes in PSEP objectives. The units of analysis are forty-two local governments located across the USA (a representative sample). The time frame of the analysis is December 1979–December 1980—a period of rapid phaseout in the PSEP. The results show that the same factors which dictate the actions of different sets of policymakers during program expansion also determine their relative levels of involvement in the phaseout period and their policy preferences (PSEP objectives) during retrenchment. The findings also suggest that local governments with long histories of federal program participation have developed fairly sophisticated reactive strategies, since phaseouts are expected events in the lives of most federal programs. These reactive strategies vary according to the economic and political conditions existing at the time of the mandated phaseout.

scholarly journals Nonpartisanship of Agents of Parliament: Bill C-520’s Redundant and Likely Unconstitutional Approach

2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Tolga R. Yalkin ◽  
Patrick F. Baud
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Service Employment ◽  
Ethics Code ◽  
Political Freedoms ◽  
Political Association ◽  
Service Employment

Bill C-520 was introduced to ensure the non-partisanship of agents of Parliament and their staff. Partisan activities, however, are already regulated by the Public Service Employment Act and the Values and Ethics Code for the Public Sector. The bill would require public servants to disclose partisan history even though such history cannot be taken into account in hiring or retention; to disclose any intentions to engage in partisan activities even though such activities are already prohibited if they would impair one’s real or apparent impartiality; and to solemnly affirm a narrow version of the Values and Ethics Code for the Public Sector they already sign when accepting employment. Furthermore, Bill C-520 runs roughshod over employees’ Charter rights and freedoms by attempting to compel expression and seemingly encouraging discrimination in hiring. The bill discourages political association, without adequate regard to the constitutional requirements set out by the SCC in Osborne that individual circumstances be taken into account when restricting public servant’s political freedoms. In sum, significant portions of the bill are duplicative of existing regulation, introduce ambiguity into the regime for the regulation of public servants, and are of dubious constitutionality.

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