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SUPPORT STAFF ON APPOINTMENT GRADE TO BE CONSIDERED FOR PROMOTION
PUTRAJAYA, May 14 (Bernama) -- Starting July 1, officers in the support
group who have served 15 years or more but are still in the appointment grade
will be considered for promotion to higher grades.
Prime Minister Najib Razak, in announcing this at the Public Sector Workers
Day gathering here Thursday, also said that several service schemes would be
upgraded from the same date.
He said the move was in appreciation of the contributions of the 176,066
officers in the support group for the federal service.
The government had also agreed to establish two new schemes for food
preparation officers and marine assistants and upgrade eight service schemes
including those for date processing machine operators, junior administrative
assistants and guards.
The exercise, also effective july 1, would involve 20,637 personnel, he
said, adding that the decision would cost the government an additional RM170.4
million.
In his speech, Najib said he wanted public sector employees to focus on
increasing productivity which would raise the country's revenue.
He said that if the revenue increased, the workers' incomes would also rise.
Najib, who is also finance minister, while stressing that he did not want
Malaysia to continue to be known as a low-wage nation, said the government was
drawing up a new economic model, a new formula to lift the country from the
middle income group.
"We are not a low-wage country but we have yet to make the leap to a
high-wage nation. As such, we need to formulate a new economic model based on
the areas that we can find to achieve the leap as a value-added nation," he
said.
Najib said that to achieve this quantum leap, the country must transform
itself from an industry-based economy, based on knowledge, to one of innovation.
"When the country's yield increases, (whatever) Cuepacs president (Omar
Osman who was also present) asks, I can close my eyes and give anytime.
"This is because when we have the yield, the country's revenue increases,
surely the government will not forget the workers," he said.
Najib also said that he was determined to foster good and close relations
with the public sector staff, just like his late father, Abdul Razak Hussein,
who was so close to the civil servants.
"I've said said that after I take over as prime minsiter, the relationship
between the government and the civil servants must be based on a deeper
principle than merely saying that this is a partnership or consensus.
"I use the principle of al-wa'ad, meaning loyalty, I use al-bai'ah, meaning
commitment to each other. If the civil servants display undivided loyalty,
united commitment, God willing, the country will be more progressive in future,"
he said.
-- BERNAMA
group who have served 15 years or more but are still in the appointment grade
will be considered for promotion to higher grades.
Prime Minister Najib Razak, in announcing this at the Public Sector Workers
Day gathering here Thursday, also said that several service schemes would be
upgraded from the same date.
He said the move was in appreciation of the contributions of the 176,066
officers in the support group for the federal service.
The government had also agreed to establish two new schemes for food
preparation officers and marine assistants and upgrade eight service schemes
including those for date processing machine operators, junior administrative
assistants and guards.
The exercise, also effective july 1, would involve 20,637 personnel, he
said, adding that the decision would cost the government an additional RM170.4
million.
In his speech, Najib said he wanted public sector employees to focus on
increasing productivity which would raise the country's revenue.
He said that if the revenue increased, the workers' incomes would also rise.
Najib, who is also finance minister, while stressing that he did not want
Malaysia to continue to be known as a low-wage nation, said the government was
drawing up a new economic model, a new formula to lift the country from the
middle income group.
"We are not a low-wage country but we have yet to make the leap to a
high-wage nation. As such, we need to formulate a new economic model based on
the areas that we can find to achieve the leap as a value-added nation," he
said.
Najib said that to achieve this quantum leap, the country must transform
itself from an industry-based economy, based on knowledge, to one of innovation.
"When the country's yield increases, (whatever) Cuepacs president (Omar
Osman who was also present) asks, I can close my eyes and give anytime.
"This is because when we have the yield, the country's revenue increases,
surely the government will not forget the workers," he said.
Najib also said that he was determined to foster good and close relations
with the public sector staff, just like his late father, Abdul Razak Hussein,
who was so close to the civil servants.
"I've said said that after I take over as prime minsiter, the relationship
between the government and the civil servants must be based on a deeper
principle than merely saying that this is a partnership or consensus.
"I use the principle of al-wa'ad, meaning loyalty, I use al-bai'ah, meaning
commitment to each other. If the civil servants display undivided loyalty,
united commitment, God willing, the country will be more progressive in future,"
he said.
-- BERNAMA
