PRIME Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim recently said that lazy and underperforming civil servants should not benefit from the revamped Public Service Remuneration System, under which some 1.6 million civil servants will get a pay rise of above 13% from Dec 1 onwards.
As a former civil servant, I wish to clarify that the government had in the past implemented many new salary schemes for government servants based on various reports and commissions. Non-performing civil servants and those facing disciplinary action were not automatically emplaced in new salary schemes.
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