Pension Scheme Designs: Can It Influence Timing of Retirement? The Case of the Public Service Pension Scheme in Uganda

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kibs Boaz Muhanguzi
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zia Akhtar

Abstract In an important decision for public law, the Supreme Court has ruled that ministerial guidance, given to administering authorities to oversee investment of Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) funds on how to discharge their powers, is unlawful. All five judges accepted that administering authorities owe “quasi-trustee” duties to LGPS members (in the area of investment) and that, as the law stands, the Secretary of State’s powers are limited by these overriding duties. However, only three judges accepted that the Public Service Pensions Act 2013 did not allow central government policy to be “imposed” on LGPS funds. The two dissenting judges stated that the public interest component of the 2013 Act was significant, and, under certain circumstances, central government could legitimately seek to align LGPS fund investment with government policy. The consequence of the ruling is that the Government will not be able to interfere in the ethical investment decisions of LGPS and their members, and the principle from the Padfield case that a discretionary power granted in legislation can never be completely unfettered and must be exercised in accordance with the purpose of the legislation has been upheld.


2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaarina Nikunen ◽  
Jenni Hokka

Welfare states have historically been built on values of egalitarianism and universalism and through high taxation that provides free education, health care, and social security for all. Ideally, this encourages participation of all citizens and formation of inclusive public sphere. In this welfare model, the public service media are also considered some of the main institutions that serve the well-being of an entire society. That is, independent, publicly funded media companies are perceived to enhance equality, citizenship, and social solidarity by providing information and programming that is driven by public rather than commercial interest. This article explores how the public service media and their values of universality, equality, diversity, and quality are affected by datafication and a platformed media environment. It argues that the embeddedness of public service media in a platformed media environment produces complex and contradictory dependencies between public service media and commercial platforms. The embeddedness has resulted in simultaneous processes of adapting to social media logics and datafication within public service media as well as in attempts to create alternative public media value-driven data practices and new public media spaces.


2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Putri Maulina

In this contemporary era, the forms of public service in Indonesia have become increasingly practical and instant. Conditions like this to illustrate how the phenomenon of McDonaldization began to plague into public service systems, one of which is with the public service system e-Filing DJP Online. E-Filing DJP Online is an application of public services based on information and communication technology implemented by the state tax execution agency to provide easy access to services for the Taxpayers in Indonesia. The purpose of this study is to see how the principles of McDonaldization are applied in the public service system of tax agencies through the DGT Online e-Filing system. The theory approach used is McDonaldization Theory by George Ritzer, and the concept of Public Service. The method used is qualitative descriptive, with literature review approach. The results show that the DGT Online e-Filing system applies the principles of McDonaldization in the form of its services, namely: efficiency, quantified and qualified services, predictability, control, and ultimately the rationale for irrationality of service.Keywords: McDonaldization, Public Service, Tax, e-Filing


Author(s):  
Aryo Wibisono ◽  
R. Amilia Destryana

This study aims to determine the index of public satisfaction in public health center services in Sumenep Regency and the relationship between the services to the public satisfaction. The analysis measured the index of public satisfaction and logistic regression methods to determine the effect of the relationship on total satisfaction in the health services of Public Health Center. The results of the study are the alignment between interests and patient satisfaction is still not aligned, there are still differences between interests and satisfaction, the pattern of the result is the relationship between the assurance dimension to the service satisfaction of the public health center, and the results of the index of public satisfaction  values show that the results of the community assess the public health center performance is very good by getting an A grade. Keywords: public service, logistic regretion, index of public satisfaction


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