By Mirvat Abdel Dayem
KUWAIT, July 4 (KUNA) -- Civil Service Commission Undersecretary Mohammad Al-Roumi has affirmed that planned review of civil servants' payments, called "the strategic alternative for payments and salaries," would not cut regular income of the employees noting that the scheme would be in effect in 2017.
The scheme is a practical solution to achieve "balance in addition to achieving justice as to distribution of salaries and bonuses and financial compensations," Al-Roumi told KUNA in an interview.
It will help in adhering to the principle; payment on basis of volume of work, he said, noting that other criteria would be also observed, such as responsibilities and requirements; bases that are also considered for determining the payments and the degrees.
There are certain jobs of higher value and significance than others; thus those undertaking such tasks should get higher payments than those doing works of lower importance, Al-Roumi explained to KUNA, stressing justice is the prime goal for re-examining the payments.
On "Kuwaitization" of jobs, he noted that the Civil Service Commission had issued decision 13/2007, designed to replace expatriates with citizens in the employment sector, noting that certain jobs have been restricted to Kuwaitis.
The commission disapproves job contracts for non-Kuwaitis unless there are no Kuwaitis available to do the work, said Al-Roumi adding that replacing expatriates with Kuwaitis in the work sector has reached 90 percent.
As to employees who fail to show up at work in a recurrent manner, he warned that such an employee is punished with deducting from the end of service allotments and the salary, in the case where he (or she) do not turn up for 15 consecutive days or 30 intermittent days throughout the year, without presenting an accepted excuse. (end) mrf.hb.rk