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Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has stated that all officers employed in the public sector for a certain number of years of service can expect to be permanently appointed.<\/p>\n
At a recent press briefing,\u00a0 Skerrit asserted that there are too many public officers in the public service not being appointed and it is one of the fundamental issues that need to be addressed.\u201cI do not think that it is fair to any person [irrespective] of who the person is, to be in the service for ten years and every six months you are receiving a letter from the public service commission.\u201d<\/p>\n
He expressed the view that after two years, it is clear that an officer is needed and, if necessary, a position\u00a0 should be created for that individual.\u201dSo we have started the process of looking at all of these departments and units to identify persons who are languishing in the service for a very long time and have not been appointed permanently, for us to do what is required…\u201d<\/p>\n
The Prime Minister highlighted two issues that prevent officers from being appointed.<\/p>\n
\u201cPublic officers may get their Green Cards or other situations and they want to test how the US is, so they ask for no-pay leave, and [sometimes] those no-pay leave is one year, two years, three years. So if you are established in a position, and you are out on leave with no pay, everybody now will be acting in their position. Another issue is people who are seconded for a very long time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meantime the Prime Minister said, \u201c The government will be bringing in place through the legislation clear regulations to manage and address these issues. We are not going to eliminate leave with no pay, neither are we going to eliminate people being seconded. There has to be a limit because while you are benefitting, others are also suffering and everyone should benefit in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are challenges that have been created by the system and how the system operates which in turn affect public officers who are acting for very long periods and substantive periods. I do not think the drafters of the Public Service Act and of the Constitution wanted to have people acting so long,” the Prime Minister added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit has stated that all officers employed in the public sector for a certain number of years of service can expect to be permanently appointed. At a recent press briefing,\u00a0 Skerrit asserted that there are too many…","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":304409,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":""},"categories":[286,235,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-governance","category-homepage-carousel","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n