The Civil Service Reform Management Unit will now review any disciplinary action taken by the Ministry of Education on its staff.
This follows the disbanding of the Internal Staff Discipline Board of the Ministry of Education in November last year.
Attorney General and Minister for Civil Service Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum says the Civil Service Reform Management Unit will now review any disciplinary action and will ensure that all proper procedures are followed.
He says any employee of the Ministry of Education who has been disciplined by the Ministry and who feels aggrieved by such disciplinary action and seeks to review the action is required to submit a request for review to the Civil Service Reform Management Unit.
Sayed-Khaiyum had mentioned earlier that the operations of the Disciplinary Services Board within the Ministry of Education were out of line with the Constitution and that all disciplinary action sought against civil servants must go through the Public Service Disciplinary Tribunal established under the Constitution to hear and determine disciplinary action.
Meanwhile, the Fiji Teachers Union had also mentioned in November last year that it wants all teachers that have been unfairly punished by the Disciplinary Services Board within the Ministry of Education to be reinstated.
