By: Lamin B. Darboe
Communication Officer, MoPS
The senior officials at the Ministry of Public Service (MoPS) recently made an unannounced visit to the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Welfare, Kanifing South.
The delegation was led to the Gender Ministry by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Public Service, Pateh Jah who explained to the Gender Ministry staff which was to sensitized them about the usage of the Biometric Time Attendance and among others.
As civil servants he added, our ultimate objective is to deliver service to the citizen and he therefore explained to them that, what is require of them (civil servants) is to be present at their workplace so that they can deliver quality services.
He said his Ministry’s unannounced visit will not only be in the morning time but can be anytime of the working days, because he added: “as civil servants, you are expected to report to work on time and be punctual. If you failed to be at work on time, you cannot deliver and as a result, it will have negative impact on the development of this country”.
PS Jah revealed that the time attendance machines are yet to be link to government payroll system, adding that, as his Ministry is moving on, it will be linked to the payroll, where if any civil servant absent for 20 days in a single month, his or her salary will be stop automatically by the system, while if one is late for three consecutive working days be deducted a day salary.
According to PS Jah, currently, they are in transitional phase of the Biometric time attendance device usage system, from manual to electronic, that is why they are yet to link it to the payroll.
