By The Minister of State in the President's Office (Public Service and Good Governance), Mr George Mkuchika
Alex Malanga
Dodoma — The government yesterday directed that all deserving public sector workers be promoted within five days.
The Minister of
State in the President's Office (Public Service and Good Governance), Mr
George Mkuchika, also directed public sector employers to confirm
employees who have been working in
acting capacities for a long time.
The law requires
that workers be confirmed after holding positions in an acting capacity
for six months or be removed from the posts if they fail to deliver.
Mr Mkuchika told
Parliament that employers who would not heed the directive would be
dealt with in line with public service rules and procedures.
He was responding
to concerns voiced by some MPs last week as they debated the Public
Service and Good Governance docket's 2019/20 budget proposals.
The lawmakers said
it was unfair for public servants to hold positions in an acting
capacity for a long tome without being confirmed.
Mr Mkuchika said all deserving employees with the required qualifications should be promoted.
He added that the
promotion of public servants that was planned for 2015/16 was suspended
to pave the way for a verification exercise meant to identify ghost
workers and employees with forged certificates.
The first phase of vetting of employees for possible promotion began on November 1, 2017 and involved 59,967 public servants.
The second phase
started on April 1, 2018, and involved 53,553 employees who were
promoted, but whose particulars were yet to be included in the relevant
system.
"Verification and
approval of a total of 113,520 public servant through HCMIS (Human
Capital Management Information System) are complete for their
promotion," Mr Mkuchika said.
He added that the
employees should be promoted with effect from May 1 to join 193,166
other workers whose promotion was budgeted for in 2017/18.
He said priority should be given to good performers whose retirement was nearing.
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