DPSM TO ROOT OUT GHOST EMPLOYEES The Directorate of Public Service Management (DPSM) is in the process of integrating the Human Resource Capital Management System into the Government Accounting System and Budgeting system, a process that has helped identify 115 ghost employees. Making a submission before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) Wednesday, May 21, DPSM director, Mr Carter Morupisi said he could not ascertain how much government has lost in payments to ghost employees who were detected since the introduction of the system, but stated that government has been able to pick names of people that are not supposed to be in the system. He said the cases ran across ministries and that in other ministries, there was a problem of identifying where officers were as track records of some employees were lost as some were transferred or are retired. He said his department will provide a comprehensive answer once the exercise has been completed. “We wanted to pilot the process with a few ministries so that we don’t temper and stop people’s salaries or bloat the system,” he said. Mr Morupisi said with other employees, it became apparent that casualty returns were not made when employees retired from the public service. He said initially the human resource data was sitting separate from the payroll system and that meant that more people that were not in the establishment were paid as there was no link, but noted that the new system will assist in integrating the two data systems. He said the detected ghost employees belong in the middle grades, the C and D grades. On other issues, Mr Morupisi admitted that a process to review the Public Service Act was continuing, although there have been delays in finalizing the act. He said the delay was caused by the fact that part of its review was done by the Attorney General, and not the concerned parties alone. He said he acknowledges that there were differences between the employer and the Public Service Bargaining Council because their engagement was new, but mentioned that the relationship will mature overtime. The PAC called for cooperation of the two parties; government and trade unions to avoid a situation whereby huge sums of money were lost to court cases as well as turning the society into a litigating one. “We don’t want a situation that we see in other countries where unions and governments were not seeing eye to eye because the government was going in one direction and the unions in another. Re le Batswana re dumela gore ntwakgolo ke ya molomo,” said PAC member Mr Kentse Rammidi. (BOPA)
Posted on: Fri, 23 May 2014 14:41:28 +0000
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