Defying The Rules: Govt set to regularise 3, 600 employees

The government decides to regularise employees who were hired 11 months ago despite ECP's displeasure.

ISLAMABAD:

A cabinet committee decided on Wednesday to regularise nearly 3,600 employees who were hired on a contractual basis.

Earlier, the government has decided to regularise over 20,000 employees who were hired 11 months ago on a contractual basis by different departments, according to a report published in The Express Tribune.

The government has already regularised over 100,000 temporary employees in the past two years, according to official figures. The fresh move may annoy the Election Commission of Pakistan, which has imposed a ban on fresh appointments as well as ‘political’ promotions before the upcoming polls.

“Cabinet Committee on Regularisation has decided to regularise the services of 3,595 employees of different government departments in the country presently working on Contract, Daily Wages and Special Service Agreement (SSA),” said a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Secretariat.

The cabinet committee was held under the chairmanship of Religious Affairs Minister Syed Khurshid Shah. It approved the regularisation of 3,088 employees of the National Commission on Human Development (NCHD). A total of 504 contract employees were regularised in the Basic Education Community Schools (BECS).

Published in The Express Tribune, February 28^th, 2013.