Lifts Temporary Freeze For……
By Benjamin Q Johnson
Monrovia: In ensuring Merit and efficiency in the public service, the Civil Service Agency (CSA) Director General Josiah F. Joekai, Jr., has issued a Circular to all heads of government spending entities to lift the temporary freeze for only Direct replacements of Civil Servants into government.
As you may recall, on 16th February 2024, the Civil Service Agency, under the direction of Mr. Alfred Drosaye, then Officer-in-Charge, in-collaboration with the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning, placed a temporary freeze on select human resource operations.
The measure according to the CSA was necessary to maintain order in how spending entities move staff around especially, during the period in which most entities were yet controlled by officers-in-charge.
According to a release from the Civil Service Agency (CSA), the freeze is only lifted on direct replacements and not the entire freeze.
“Today, we are lifting the freeze only for direct replacements, but the freeze on new Hiring and Transfer will be lifted after the Payroll Compliance Audit which is expected to shortly be conducted by the General Auditing Commission (GAC),” the release States.
The release added that the Civil Service Agency reached the decision due to a significant percentage of GoL
Spending Entities who have been staffed with the appropriate statutory heads.
“The Civil Service Agency wishes to emphatically remind all heads of spending entities that in
reference to Chapters 3 & 4 of the Standing Orders for the Civil Service, 2012, all the
following human resource movements must meet the approval of the Director-General
before implementation of Promotions or demotions, Intra & inter agency transfers; Direct replacements and
Change of employee’s payroll account details,” the release explained.
The CSA further stated that With the exception of the last bullet point listed supra, all human resource actions must duly be processed using the appropriate Personnel Action Notices (PAN) as required by Section 35 of the Civil Service Revised Human Resource Policy Manual of September 2014.
However, the CSA Director-General maintains that while the Civil Service Agency continues to scrutinize and clean up the payroll of government employees, the fate of 40,000 civil servants is said to be hanging in the
balance.
He noted that their statuses are said not to have been regularized from 2019 to 2023, while the proper processing of the Personnel Action Notices (PAN) has not been adhered to.
According to a circular issued by the CSA’s Director General, Josiah F. Joekai, Jr., the CSA has
requested all Heads of government Spending Entities to ensure that employees who were added to the payroll during the period of July 2019 to December 2023, “and whose status has not been regularized by the Civil Service Agency to work with their respective Human Resource Directors to proceed to the Civil Service Agency and have their Personnel Action Notices (PAN) properly
processed within a grace period of ninety (90) days, beginning April 2 to June 30, 2024″.
The Director-General of the Civil Service Agency strongly warns that “all Human Resource Directors of Spending Entities concerned are to take due note and provide the required documentation to prevent employees affected by this situation from being deleted from the GOL Payroll.
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