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No better than 5%

Dec 10, 2013 Letters

 

DEAR EDITOR,
It is difficult to disagree with those Public Servants who insist that their colleagues in the Public Service are deserving of no more than a 5% increase in pay. They are absolutely right. Their pronouncement is an implicit evaluation of the performance of themselves and colleague public servants across the board.
What has also been clearly articulated is that the entire public service has performed at its optimum of 5% with absolutely no differentiation in performance between Office Assistant and say, Permanent Secretary or Chief Medical Officer.
That the latter are examples of so many contracted employees, who enjoy more gratuitous conditions of employment than their ‘pensionable’ counterparts, are also evaluated as performing not a percentage better, must be the cause for much surprise, anger and even insult at the patent lack of appreciation.
But perhaps a more fundamental implication that may have been overlooked is that the whole consists of the sum of its parts. What the 5% therefore finally speaks to – is a holistic self-evaluation performance!
Hopefully, this negative fallout would incentivise the return to well established practices including: i) a comprehensive Job Evaluation Exercise, and ii) an equally critical Performance Evaluation Programme.
EB John

 

 

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