THE National Executive Council has endorsed a proposed public service time and attendance system policy to manage uncontrolled absenteeism of large numbers of public servants.
Prime Minister Peter O’Neill said Cabinet endorsed the proposed policy and reiterated that many ministers and governors were concerned about poor time-keeping and the daily attendance of public servants, resulting in poor service delivery over the years. "Our elected representatives are simply voicing the concerns of their constituents who continue to suffer by officers’ poor attendance and incompetency at work," Mr O’Neill said. To impose strict discipline on time-keeping and attendance; there must be a consistent recording system in place, the PM said. "Each agency head must be able to judge the performance of individual officers against the rules. "There is a general order requiring that every department keep a manual or journal to enable officers to sign in and sign out stating their times of commencing and finishing work daily," he said. The Prime Minister also announced that Cabinet had approved various pilot sites to test and develop the payroll linked electronic monitoring and control systems. "This will introduce a compulsory electronic controlled time and attendance system across the public service to improve productivity and service delivery," Mr O’Neill said. Further, the proposed policy would improve productivity as measured by the improvements in attendance at the workplace and was targeted to improve at a 20 per cent rate. The Department of Personnel Management has been directed by the Cabinet to set up a timekeeping and attendance taskforce headed by its secretary and work with other lead agencies to establish and coordinate this project, the Prime Minister said.
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