House criticizes Civil Service Commission for immature disclosure

Pensioners grateful to increments: Commission

Dec. 02, 2019; Addis Ababa: House of Peoples’ Representatives criticized the Civil Service Commission for its immature and misleading disclosure, which was delivered to the public regarding the civil servants salary scale re-arrangements.

Human resources and technology affairs standing committee of the House conducted the current quarter-year’s accomplishments of the Civil Service Commission recently. By then, it pointed-out that the commission’s hasty, unfulfilled delivery at the start of the new fiscal year imposed inflation on the civil servants.

Though the commission claimed it played its part right, the committee insisted the disclosure wasn’t full because it didn’t clearly indicate the proceeding. The commission failed to explain explicitly that the government only conducted scale re-arrangements, but not topped-up salary amounts for civil servants, according to the committee.

Commissioner Bezabih Guebreyes on his part elaborated, the commission assessed and transformed scales for job titles exceeding 20 thousand. The remaining one per-cent task is only due to the newly launched government offices, as to him.

The Commissioner, along with his colleagues elucidated to the House committee that some government offices’ obstinate nature to stick to their early advantageous scales retarded the overall activities.

“The other drawback was the 1 thousand 200 job titles confirmation case. Due to restructurings in Oromiya and Addis Ababa Administration, this much titles weren’t affirmed by the commission, as immediate as possible”, according to Ato Bezabih.

On the other hand, pensioners are now grateful for the increments on their monthly pension incomes starting from July 8 0f 2019, the Commissioner said.

“The commission, based-upon the government’s request, conducted the how-to-do investigation and transformed the pensioners. Hence, the smallest pension payment; 7 hundred Eth Birr is transformed to 1 thousand 258 Eth Birr”, Ato Bezabih added.

Chairperson of the standing committee, w/ro Emiye Bitew concluded the session with remarks that appreciated the commission’s pre-work discussion with its employees on the topic and also reminded it to carry-out consecutive awareness buildings for the public, regarding the scale re-arrangements as not salary top-ups.

Translated by Asrat Addisu