PUTRAJAYA, April 25 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has gave assurance that the revised Public Service Remuneration System (SSPA), which will be announced soon, will be the best ever introduced in the country.
Anwar, who is also Finance Minister, said the revised SSPA will also see the highest financial implication ever involved.
“I would like to reiterate that the revised remuneration system is the best and involves the highest financial implication the country has ever seen.
“But it is not your problem, it is our (government) problem to find more money. I want you to know that I do not consider this (remuneration system) a petty or trivial matter,” he said at the Malaysian Administrative and Diplomatic Service Association (PPTD) Aidilfitri Town Hall Meeting with Prime Minister on Thursday.
The town hall meeting was attended by Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Mohd Zuki Ali, Director-General of Public Service Datuk Seri Wan Ahmad Dahlan Abdul Aziz and over 2,000 administrative and diplomatic officers.
At the same time, Anwar denied that the government only focused on the welfare of civil servants, saying that the government also paid attention to the problems faced by other groups such as farmers and fishermen.
Nevertheless, he said civil servants cannot be compared with others as they are directly under the government’s purview.
“So, I told my friends in the Cabinet that we have no choice. We have to give you our best, We must recognise your contributions and provide a more fair remuneration system,” he said.
Anwar said he also wanted top management in the public service to ensure that all groups of civil servants benefited from the system.
“In a meeting with the Chief Secretary to the Government, Director-General of Public Service and Treasury Secretary-General, I said I don’t want one department, one group that feels they are left behind. We want to make a comprehensive review of this remuneration system and I have asked for it to be done together with civil service reform,” he said.
