CSC nominates 5,181 citizens to work in various govt bodies
Al-Jassar issues order to cancel service bonus
KUWAIT CITY, Oct 3: The Civil Service Commission (CSC) has announced the nomination of 5,181 male and female citizens to work in various governmental bodies, reports Al-Seyassah daily.
In press statement, the CSC affirmed that it continues to receive manpower needs of governmental bodies while advising all those nominated to different posts in government institutions to visit their workplaces starting from Tuesday to complete the necessary procedures.
Meanwhile, Chairman of Civil Service Commission (CSC) Ahmed Al-Jassar has issued a decision to cancel service bonus (Ayar bonus) for engineers and technicians who are assigned to remote locations, reports Al-Rai daily.
The daily quoting a CSC source added the bonus was activated since Dec 1, 2002 as per the recommendation of the Ministry of Electricity and Water during the tenure of Talal AlAyar, indicating CSC approved of the bonus to motivate Kuwaiti engineers and technicians that refused to work at remote sites.
The same source noted the remote locations became saturated over the years with engineers and technicians, and the bonus turned out to be the vested right of employees receiving the package for so long. He stressed the employees in question will continue receiving the bonus unless they leave the designated locations.
He reaffirmed that engineers assigned to remote locations receive bonuses ranging from KD 50 to KD 250 according to job specification, while the bonus for technicians ranges from KD 30 to KD 200 based on the nature job and grade.
The Ministry of Information issued a circular on Sept 5, 2017 giving directors, supervisors, heads of departments and employees who served for more than 25 years a grace period ending on Oct 5, to register their fingerprints at the Follow-up Section in the Administrative and Financial Affairs Sector in light of the decision obligating all employees to use the fingerprint attendance system regardless of their position and number of years in service, reports Al-Anba daily quoting sources.
Sources affirmed that majority of the employees have already registered their fingerprints into the system and nearly 200 employees are given until Wednesday to do so.
The Public Authority for Housing Welfare (PAHW) has started distributing the first batch of building permits for West Abdullah Al-Mubarak housing project, reports Al-Anba daily.
Around 100 citizens have so far received the permits but the authority refused to issue the permits to two citizens as they were found to have violated the condition to present a new disability certificate.
Spokesman of PAHW Eng Ibrahim Al-Nashi had earlier been quoted as saying that letters on the construction of residential buildings will be distributed in seven batches, indicating the first batch includes 395 buildings.