Teachers have suffered from late implementation of Open Merit Recruitment System - AG

Teachers have suffered from the late implementation of the Open Merit Recruitment System.

Attorney General and Minister for Civil Service Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum said this while speaking to teachers at a road show at Jai Narayan College.

Sayed-Khaiyum has announced a series of nationwide road shows to give Fijian civil servants the facts on government's civil service reform agenda and correct the record of misinformation and rumors about what the reform means for the civil service.

He explained that salary bands are formed on the level of responsibility of a particular position, giving the example of the level responsibility of someone from the Ministry of Education head office compared to that of the head teacher of a school.

The road show events are designed to provide teachers with specific information on the reform agenda, including on the recent job evaluation exercise and overhaul of the remuneration system that led to the increase in salaries across the civil service.

Accompanying the Attorney General was the Director Of Civil Service Reform Management Unit Jane Curran who laid out the job evaluation factors of civil servants.

Curran said that a higher qualification does not get more pay, as there are criteria that govern the salary bands. 

She says job evaluation is based on factors such as education, experience, complexity of the job, scope of the job, problem solving, freedom to act, impact of decision, authorities and people management skills.