PLYMOUTH Barbarians take on fierce city rivals Old Techs at Bull Point tomorrow (2.30pm) in a match that could determine who goes to the play-offs. Techs hold bragging rights by just one point after a 6-5 win at Weston Mill earlier in the season. Full Article at This Is Plymouth

Some Civil Service Commission members said Thursday they don’t understand Gov. Bobby Jindal’s objection to a new state employee pay plan that ties pay raises to job ratings. Full Article at 2TheAdvocate.com

DUNMORE - Two Dunmore police officers are asking for a court order to make the municipality rescind their superior officers' promotions. Full Article at Scranton Times-Tribune

A patrolman on the Lafayette Police Department has been suspended without pay for 30 days for lying about checking on a complaint of a suspicious person near a residence. Full Article at The Courier-Journal

ANALYSIS: Ministers hinting at the need for reform in the wake of pay cuts is sure to aggravate unions, writes MARTIN WALL WITHIN 24 hours of the Budget speech on Wednesday, three Cabinet Ministers had effectively hinted that the implementation of... Full Article at Irish Times

Our panel of experts took questions online from our readers. Below are excerpts from the session and the replies I have just retired from the Civil Service. Will my pension be affected (it was based on my final salary) by the Budget? Thanks. Full Article at Irish Times

A former Jackson firefighter lost his appeal of his dismissal today when he failed to show up for a hearing before the Civil Service Commission. Full Article at The Clarion-Ledger

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) The state Civil Service Commission has approved the suspension of a state health agency employee accused of theft of public disaster relief funds. Full Article at The Daily Advertiser

Last week, while addressing civil servants in Hoima District, the Minister of State for Local Government, Perez Ahabwe, told them that they had no choice but to work towards President Museveni's re-election in 2011 or lose their jobs. Full Article at AllAfrica.com

“I THINK we will always cope, whatever the population is”. Alan Johnson this week, on the prospect of the UK population hitting 70 million. Not so much a Home Secretary as a Hope Secretary. Full Article at Express & Star

Unions are to take legal action against the Government over "unilateral changes" to the Civil Service compensation scheme. Full Article at Channel 4

The Public and Commercial Service union also decided to ballot its 270,000 members for industrial action in protest at the move, which was confirmed by Prime Minister Gordon Brown earlier this week. Full Article at The Telegraph

The state Civil Service Commission on Wednesday approved the suspension of a state health agency employee accused of theft of public disaster relief funds. Full Article at 2TheAdvocate.com

With qualification as Group winners assured and Arsene naming ten teenagers in his squad for the trip to Athens, a defeat might well have been considered a likely outcome, even though Olympiacos were missing a good few players of their own. Full Article at Vital Football

Requirements to take the city of Watertown fire chief promotional civil service test likely will remain as is, despite Timothy "Tucker" Wiley's request to the City Council on Monday to change them. Full Article at Watertown Daily Times

BATON ROUGE A reworking of the pay raise system for thousands of state workers was approved Wednesday by the Civil Service Commission despite complaints from employees the performance-based procedures would allow managers to play favorites. Full Article at The Opelousas Daily World

WORKERS paid more money into company pension schemes than their employers did for the first time in six years during 2008, figures showed yesterday. Full Article at Wales Online

Jindal says he wants more flexibility in plan The state Civil Service Commission on Wednesday approved a new pay plan for rank-and-file state employees after revising it to tie annual pay raises to attainment of certain job performance goals. Full Article at 2TheAdvocate.com

The Civil Service Employees Council (CSEC) at Western Illinois University and Sharp/Watts Copy Systems are pleased to announce Teresa Little, a staff clerk in Western Illinois University's Office of the Vice President for Advancement and Public... Full Article at Western Courier