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Performance Bonus for civil servants announced

September 27, 2018 4:55 am

Performance Bonus for civil servants will be paid out in January next year.

This was confirmed by Economy Minister Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum while speaking to teachers in Nabua last night.

Sayed-Khaiyum says the bonus payment is based on the performance of every Civil Servants and thorough process will be followed to ensure the payments are done accordingly.

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“If you don’t get the criteria right or the bench mark right going forward it can cause a lot of problems so we will need to get it right and that’s why Permanent Secretaries of respective Ministries have been asked to do second round of remuneration and then it will be paid out in the month of January.”

Sayed-Khaiyum says the performance bonus is not an automatic right which all civil servants will receive every year as it is based and assessed on performance.