This includes those whose contracts have expired or that have not yet been submitted to the Administrative Tribunal, which is supposed to give the go-ahead to all employment contracts in the state apparatus.
Meeting last week in the southern city of Inhambane, the ANFP Coordinating Council gave those state offices with employees in an irregular sitaution until 20 June - this Wednesday - to sort the matter out.
This deadline seems quite impossible. for, according to a preliminary report on the censis of state employees, that took place from February to April, over 30,000 of the 120,000 people working in the public administration are in an "irregular" situation.
The ANFP is also ordering the transfer all individual dossiers to district level in order to facilitate procedures for career progression and promotion, and this is to be done by 31 December this year.
The Inhambane meeting described the census, easily the largest and most ambitious activity undertaken by the ANFP since its creation in 2006, as a success. It should have provided a reliable data base on all state employees.
Victoria Diogo, the ANFP chairperson, urged all provincial and district Permanent Secretaries and human resources managers to do all in their power to ensure a reliable and credible System of Information of state human resources, to be used as tools for the planning of other strategic activities and staff management.
One of the ANFP challenges is to modernize and professionalize the state apparatus, which implies developing and consolidating the System of Staff Management, all to provide a better service to the public.
Diogo stressed the need to strengthen the role of the Higher Institute of Public Administration (ISAP) and the Public and Municipal Administration Training Institutes (IFAPA) for training public servants to improve their technical and professional levels.
The low level of education among the public servants has been a major concern of the ANFP. The Inhambane meeting heard that more than 70 per cent of state employees have no more than secondary education, and often not even complete secondary schooling, including some who are occupying key positions.
"All deliberations and recommendations produced here must be translated into plans and concrete actions that must be abided by if we are to attain the desired results", said Diogo, emphasising that all actions must be centred on the human factor, "a human capital that the state is proud of".
SOURCE: AIM
