KUALA LUMPUR – The government will streamline the civil servants work attendance system to ensure continuous service delivery following the implementation of the movement control order (MCO).
Public Service Department director-general Tan Sri Mohd Khairul Adib Abd Rahman said there are still gaps that need to be improved in the system and he is confident that it will be overcome immediately.
“The first phase of the MCO implemented by the government in March last year was during the school holidays, so many parents were at their respective kampung and we needed to manage (things) so they could return to their respective workstations.
“In the current situation, the MCO was not announced during the school holidays. However, some took the opportunity to run back to their kampung, so we had to ask all department heads to do random checks,” he said tonight on the RTM programme Bicara Naratif: Norma Baharu Perkhidmatan (Services in the New Normal).
Khairul said to ensure that civil servants are at home and can immediately come to work when asked to by their department heads, several methods such as displaying their current locations and being able to conduct video calls will be employed.
He said although civil servants are allowed to work from home, their department heads can order them to report for work in person at any time.
“This work-from-home (culture) is new in the public sector. Employees can work from home upon being instructed by the government or upon obtaining permission from their respective department heads,” he added. – Bernama, January 27, 2021
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