The Government Compensation Review exercise is attempting to reduce the over three hundred pay scales currently across the public sector to 16 bands.
That’s according to a document from the Transformation Implementation Unit, TIU, obtained by Nationwide News.
The document outlines a proposal to absorb and discontinue or restructure several allowances into the new compensation system.
Wayne Walker tells us more.
The new 16 band system is being put forward to replace the over 325 salary scales currently being used in the public sector.
The new structure proposes to begin with band one. This covers the lowest point in the new structure.
It includes attendants and cleaners.
Band 16, the highest level, has been reserved for public servants whose role impact multiple areas of the civil service.
Band fifteen will include roles such as Permanent Secretaries, the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Auditor General.
A total of 1,040 jobs were evaluated up to February this year.
It’s the hope of the Transformation Implementation Unit that the new system will be easier to understand, recognise and reward performance and be more manageable.
The exercise also wishes to distill the over 185 allowances currently across the public sector.
This is to be done through an exercise of either restructuring existing ones, absorbing others while continuing only a handful.
Those proposed for restructuring include overtime and related allowances, uniform and clothing, mileage and subsistence and reimbursable payments.
Traveling, qualification increments and duty allowances are also to be absorbed.
According to the document, the taxi, seniority, shift, night and foreign service allowances are set to be continued.
The document promises that no change in the structure will lower a civil servants take home pay.
