PRESENTATION CONDITIONS OF SERVICE ORGANISED BY : FPSOU /FSSP DELIVERY BY : A RAMA (5 770 3627)

1. PRESENTATION • CONDITIONS OF SERVICE • ORGANISED BY: FPSOU /FSSP • DELIVERY BY: A RAMA (5 770 3627) • (MIN OF ENVIROMENT) • & • : F K YARROO (5 754 6786) • (MIN OF HEALTH & QUALITY OF LIFE) • (01 APRIL 2014)

2. HISTORY • British Administration-Establishment Secretary • Independence • Maritianisation Of The Service • Development & Economic Independence • Need To improve the service • (modern, dynamic and ambitious public service) • Quality Public Officers • Responsive Conditions of Service

3. EVOLUTION OF HR CONCEPT • Commodity • Factor Of Production • Goodwill • Paternalistic • Humanitarian • Human Resource • Emerging Concepts: • HRD & Strategic • HR- Audit • HR- the economic value

4. EMPLOYER’S CONCERN • Changes in economic environment, economic performance and the need for increased productivity • The remuneration trends in the economy and market realities • The urge and pressure for adopting performance management principles and improving service delivery in the Public Sector • The need to attract, recruit, motivate and retain qualified high calibre candidates, particularly those with wide experience and scarce talents

5. EMPLOYER’S CONCERN (cont) • The need to partially bridge the gap between the Public Sector and the Private Sector at the appropriate levels of the echelon to facilitate recruitment and retention of required talents • The need to establish fair relativities to maintain harmonious employee relations • The need to maintain relativities and differentials in reward commensurate with responsibilities

6. “There is no magic in the success of companies. The secret of their success is simply the way they treat their employees” • Akio Morita • (founder of Sony Corporation)

7. CONDITIONS OF SERVICE • DEFINITION: • the terms and conditions governing employment of people in the Public Service • contract of employment • employeeprovides his services • employer provides compensation

8. MAIN ELEMENTS OF CONDITIONS OF SERVICE • SALARY • TRAVELLING • ALLOWANCES (GENERAL & SPECIFIC) • PASSAGE BENEFITS • LEAVE • END OF YEAR BONUS • INCREMENTS & INCREMENTAL CREDITS • HOURS OF WORK • SALARY ON PROMOTION • RETIREMENT BENEFITS (PENSION) • FUNERAL GRANT

9. INSTRUMENTS REGULATING CONDITIONS • Constitution • PSC Regulations • Official Secrets Act • Pensions Act • Workmen’s Act • Employment Relations Act • Employment Rights Act • Public Officers Protection Act • Public Officers Welfare Act • The widow’s and Children’s Pension Act • Civil Service Family Protection Scheme Board Act • The Occupational Safety and Health Act • HRMM • PRB and other Reports • Circulars

10. EMPLOYEES’ CONCERN • Better working conditions through: • Better remuneration package (Pay, Conditions of Service and Benefits) • Career path (Promotions) • Respectable treatment (elimination of discrimination) • Equal pay for work of equal value (eliminating inequity) • Decent working environment • The erosion in the purchasing power • MOTIVATING CONDITIONS

11. CHALLENGES FOR EMPLOYEES • REFORMS • APPRAISAL BOTH INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL • INCREASING WORKLOAD • NEW SERVICES • COMPLEXITY IN THE SERVICE DELIVERY • PRESSURE BOTH INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL • PERFORMANCE WITHOUT FAIL • MEDIA • UPGRADING OF QUALIFICATIONS / KSA

12. AREAS OF EXPLOITATION THE WHOLE AREA OF CONDITIONS OF SERVICE: EXAMPLES: • Travelling • Leave and Passage benefits • Continuing Professional Development / Training (Sponsorship) • Long Service Increment • Performance Management System • Uniforms / Equipment / Risk RESPECTIVE UNIONS SHOULD BE IN A BETTER POSITION TO BRING FORWARD NEW IDEAS AND ANY COMPARATIVELY LESS FAVOURABLE CONDITIONS

13. THANK U 2131947 / 2136818