What this particular article reports is full of inaccuracies and if it is not misinformation by the author of the article then it is simply empathy.
First of all, the request to hire hourly employees to adequately staff the roadblocks was not made now, but since January 2020 by the previous Director of the Department of Immigration (DIMP), to the Department of Administration and Personnel (DAPP) of the Ministry of Finance.
First of all, the request to hire hourly employees to adequately staff the roadblocks was not made now, but since January 2020 by the previous Director of the Department of Immigration (DIMP), to the Department of Administration and Personnel (DAPP) of the Ministry of Finance.
The purpose and objective is to address the problem of understaffing of the 12 checkpoints at the roadblocks resulting from the rest and sick leave that employed staff are entitled to receive. Due to the strict financial policy of the Ministry of Finance, lengthy consultations were required until the request for the recruitment of 42 and not 25 hourly staff was approved on 23 June 2022.
PASYDY did not agree with the position of the Ministry of Interior, which considers the continuation of overtime employment of existing civil servants to be a more appropriate solution, a position with which the Ministries of Interior and Finance do not agree, since apart from the increased costs, there is also the issue of productivity of the employees, who currently work overtime until midnight, and at 7 o'clock.30 in the morning of the next day they have to be back in their offices.
Despite the necessity to recruit all 42 hourly employees approved, the Minister of the Interior, acting in agreement with the Civil Servants' Guild, accepted in the first year to recruit 25 and not 42 people.
Despite the necessity to recruit all 42 hourly employees approved, the Minister of the Interior, acting in agreement with the Civil Servants' Guild, accepted in the first year to recruit 25 and not 42 people.
On 23 September 2022, the Director General of the Ministry of Interior requested the necessary appropriations from the Ministry of Finance, which were finally granted at the end of October 2022.
Upon approval of the appropriations, the TAMP was required to request the Ministry of Labour to send a list of four times the number of available positions (i.e. 100 persons) from within the list of unemployed and minimum guaranteed income (MGA) persons who have expressed interest in being appointed to an hourly position.
No specific service plan needs to be prepared as the existing hourly staff plan will be used.
No legal issue exists regarding the responsibilities of the hourly staff as the general service plan does not prohibit their employment in civilian control operations under the supervision and support of the barricade manager.
With the recruitment of the hourlies, permanent employees will return to the Immigration Department to meet the increased need for secretarial staff.
Despite the delay observed with bureaucratic procedures and trade union reservations, the Ministry of Interior considers that all 42 hourlies should have already been recruited for the reasons mentioned above.
While acknowledging that streamlining the employment of civil servants and increasing productivity should receive the praise of the press officers, it is at least funny to refer to electoral considerations on an issue concerning the control and security of the state, when in fact it involves recruitment from the list of the unemployed and the EEO and with the request dating back to 2020.
If this lengthy process is considered "express" by the newspaper, then we wonder what is the vision of our critics for the Cyprus of tomorrow.
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