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(b)
(c)
(d)
Mr President,
of the reasons for employing temporary contract staff; and whether it will review this recruitment policy;
given that the contracts of temporary staff are often renewed upon the expiry of their current contracts, of the highest number of such contract renewals granted consecutively to an individual staff member and the duration of each renewal;
whether any such staff members have sustained injuries while at work over the past three years and if so, of the total number of such staff; and whether there have been any such staff members whose contracts have not been renewed during their sick leave periods; if so, of the number of such cases?
The Government's employment policy is that staff should be employed on permanent terms as this will encourage greater stability in the civil service. Temporary staff should only be employed for part-time duties or specific assignments of a short term nature on a casual or ad hoc basis. They are normally employed by government departments under the following circumstances:
(a)
(b)
to cater for seasonal service needs and short-term fluctuations in workload that do not justify maintaining permanent staff;
to undertake ad hoc duties or specific short-term tasks or projects which cannot be accommodated by permanent staff resources;
to cater for temporary shortfall of staff;
(c)
(d)
to perform duties or tasks requiring staff on a part-time basis; or
(e)
to perform duties in posts which are to be deleted for various reasons such as those intended to be contracted out.
Turning to the questions raised:
(a) The number of temporary staff employed by USD and RSD in the last three years and the percentage this represent of the total strength of the respective department are: