Government trying to cheat civil servants?

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Is the federal government trying to cheat their civil servants over the introduction of a less attractive new Civil Service Remuneration System (SBPA) option?

Why are we saying this word, cheating? It is because the Public Service Department (JPA) had given the civil servants only a 16- day grace period, that is starting from 15 December t0 31 December 2011 to sign up of the new salary scale option without giving any proper details and documentations of the new option.

Come on, that 16-day grace period is dam short and how can JPA expect all the civil servants to understand the contents of the new option (when it has not been provided at all) and have it signed immediately or within that stipulated period of time? Furthermore, it is year end now, and many of them had already gone on leave.

So, what is the real intention of the federal government and the JPA in hurrying up the civil servants to sign up for the new option in such a situation to an extend that no details or documentations are provided for them to analyse before they could accept it.

Well, it is lucky that the Congress of Unions of Employees in the Public and Civil Services (Cuepacs) had saved the day by urging civil servants not to blindly sign any unknown or "blank forms" issued by JPA.

We would like to urge Cuepacs to be vary of the government and JPA's bullying tactics in getting the civil servants to sign off this undesirable option.

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