31 Jul 2024

civil servants have stagnated at the top of the A, B and C1 scales for 10 or more years.

This was revealed by Assistant Minister for State President, Ms Boitumelo Gofhamodimo in response to a parliamentary question on Tuesday.

Ms Gofhamodimo said the number translated to 41 per cent of employees at A, B and C1 scales.

However, she told Parliament that there was a plan to replace the current salary structure with the fan-shaped structure during the current financial year in order to address the stagnation of public service employees who had been at the top of the C1, A and B scales for 10 or more years.

“The fan-shaped salary structure is a product of the 2019 and 2022 collective labour agreements entered into by recognised public sector trade unions and government as the employer represented by the Directorate of Public Service Management.

The salary structure has been designed to facilitate the movement of public service employees beyond the current ceiling to extended notches,” she explained.

The assistant minister was responding to a question asked by Bobonong MP, Mr Taolo Lucas who wanted to know the number of civil servants who had stagnated at the top of the C1, A and B scales for 10 or more years.

Mr Lucas also asked the minister to state plans to address stagnation and its effects as on the civil service. ENDS