Ghost employees haunt DPSM
Isaiah Morewagae | Thursday May 22, 2014 17:06
The call comes after DPSM boss Carter Morupisi told the committee that so far they have discovered about 115 ghost employees on government payroll. Although he was unable to state the length of time these ghost employees have been getting salaries, some people believe that they have cost more than P1 million.
Morupisi told the parliamentary committee that at the moment the majority of the ghost employees are found in the Ministry of Education and Skills Development and the Ministry of Health database. He said they are continuously cleaning the data before capturing it in the computers.
“We are still investigation the 115 ghost employees and we expect the exercise to take between three to six months to complete,” Morupisi said.
From there Morupisi added that they will roll out the computerised system to the whole public service an exercise they expect to be complete at the end of the year.
The Member of Parliament for Palapye Moisaraele Goya wondered when DPSM be rolling out computerised human resource management system to all government systems. He felt the system could help government track all its employees.
On other issues, Morupisi told PAC that the four percent that was offered to the public servants outside Public Service Bargaining Council (PSBC) was what the government has put on the table for the unions.
Morupisi’s comment came after the PAC chairman Nehemiah Modubule asked whether government came with zero percentage when they negotiated with unions for salary increment.
Morupisi further said he was not concerned with the relationship the government and the unions have at the moment.
“Negotiations are all about arguing. Under extremely unusual circumstances people on the negotiating table will always agree but that does not mean that those people love or hate each other. It is the nature of negotiation,” Morupisi said.
He could not be drawn in to discussing whether Section 12 of the Public Service Act that gives the President powers to make pronouncement on issues regarding bargaining council was among clauses that will be amended.