Strategic alternative payroll system still under deliberation: Minister

A authorities undertaking to overtake the general public sector’s payroll system stays underneath deliberation and nonetheless must be accomplished as a way to serve the pursuits of the state and nationwide economic system, Finance Minister Manaf Al-Hajri mentioned on Saturday, noting that rumors at the moment circulated on social media relating to public sector salaries are “inaccurate” and “unrealistic.”

The undertaking generally known as the strategic different payroll system was initially proposed for the aim of attaining equality amongst public sector workers and switch state departments into productiveness, the minister mentioned. The system seeks to realize equality in fee and a brand new efficiency evaluation system based mostly on the staff’ precise productiveness. With out the analysis system, the undertaking won’t obtain its goal of encouraging productiveness amongst public sector workers, mentioned the minister.

Moreover, the federal government desires to make it possible for the undertaking wouldn’t end in nationwide manpower refusing work within the personal sector “which is already struggling right now due to lack of curiosity from a lot of younger individuals attributable to its lengthy working hours and deal with productiveness in employees evaluation,” he mentioned.

Efforts to implement the strategic payroll different system should not hinder the state’s monetary sustainability and authorities’s capability to launch main tasks, he additional famous.