Attorney General and Minister for Civil Service Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum stresses that there will be no re-advertising of 30,000 civil service posts.
Sayed-Khaiyum says they will look at their options on what action to take against the Fiji Times after checking their recorded interview with government MP Ashneel Sudhakar.
He says the comments attributed to the relevant committee members in the Fiji Times article, “Civil Service jobs to be re-advertised: intake on merit” last week do not reflect Government’s policy position towards Civil Service reform.
Sayed-Khaiyum says the Ministry of Civil Service has never planned to re-advertise any existing positions or have civil servants reapply for their jobs.
He says that while there will be new open merit based selection criteria, these will apply only to vacant positions in the Civil Service.
Ashneel Sudhakar said last week that the article contains numerous factual errors and misrepresent Government’s reform of the Civil Service.
The Fiji Times has today printed a transcript saying that Sudhakar said that there were endless possibilities but nothing is confirmed regarding the civil service reforms as yet.
