No pay cut for public servants

PUBLIC Service Minister Westly Nukundj has clarified that there is no plan to cut the pay of any public servant that has been claimed.
He said it was about correcting the anomalies in human resource and administrative policies and guidelines that had been abused over the years.
Nukundj has instructed his department and the Personnel Management Department to recall devolved powers to ensure proper monitoring and compliance checks are carried out to correct the anomalies.
“I want to reassure all public servants that there will not be any cut to their salaries,” he said.
He said the human resource audit, through monitoring and compliance, was to establish where those devolved powers were being wrongly administered and to correct them accordingly.
“This Special General Order is to correct the improper applications of the devolved powers in:

• Organisational structures they don’t operate with the approved structures;
• recruitment, selection and appointment of powers withdrawn;
• salary classifications on positions – incorrect application of NEC-approved rates;
• applications and administration of allowances;
• attendance and punctuality versus productivity; and,
• Administrative and management misuse of motor vehicles, use of hire cars, use of hotel sites for meetings.

“I want to make it clear that the Special General Orders is not about cutting pays of public servants,” he said.
“Public servants’ salaries will remain. But through the audit exercises, we will correct pays that have been wrongly paid to public servants under the devolved environment, to be in compliance with government pay policies in the general orders.”