11 Jul 2006

Fiji suspends public service performance management system

3:58 pm on 11 July 2006

Fiji's Public Service Commission has suspended the performance management system, or PMS, of assessing public servants introduced in 2004.

The PSC says the suspension will remain indefinitely until a new mechanism is developed for annual performance appraisal and review pay and agreed to by public service unions.

The government had strongly pushed the Performance Management System which was criticised by the unions and condemned as unworkable in a World Bank review.

The general secretary of the Fiji Public Service Association, Rajeshwar Singh, has welcomed the suspension of the PMS and says they will be working with the government to devise a new system of assessing public servants' performance.