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Govt sweats over retrenchment
13 Feb 2015 at 07:03hrs | Views
Government, which has been hard hit by a shrinking revenue base as the economy continues to nosedive, is struggling to effect civil service reforms, particularly rationalisation of the size of its bloated professional bureaucracy and wage bill.
Since last year, the Civil Service Commission (CSC) has been undertaking a restructuring exercise expected to inform the 2015 budget process.
During his 2015 national budget presentation last November, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa indicated government would start retrenching civil servants this year to contain the wage bill.
Senior officials in the Public Service ministry said this week the restructuring exercise aims to align ministries' staffing with their mandates, and also identify any duplications and redundancies.
The CSC is also modernising and decentralizing the Salary Service Bureau (SSB), an exercise that will involve placing a payroll assistant in every district, and this will be completed by end of 2015.
This will improve the SSB's grip on the wage bill and put it in a better position to flush out any irregularities," said an official in the ministry.
Since last year, the Civil Service Commission (CSC) has been undertaking a restructuring exercise expected to inform the 2015 budget process.
During his 2015 national budget presentation last November, Finance minister Patrick Chinamasa indicated government would start retrenching civil servants this year to contain the wage bill.
The CSC is also modernising and decentralizing the Salary Service Bureau (SSB), an exercise that will involve placing a payroll assistant in every district, and this will be completed by end of 2015.
This will improve the SSB's grip on the wage bill and put it in a better position to flush out any irregularities," said an official in the ministry.
Source - Zim Ind
