Bernama
10/3/2009
KUALA TERENGGANU, March 5 (Bernama) -- Cuepacs on Thursday expressed regret over being accused of putting the government at ransom when about 50,000 civil servants refuse to work overtime if they are not paid for it.Its president Omar Osman said Cuepacs had no intention of threatening the government with such action, but to voice out the frustrations of low-ranking civil servants over the lack of promotion opportunities."Don't brand us as a threat...we are not issuing any threat," he told reporters when met at a workshop on salary review in the public sector, here.He was asked to comment on the statement by Public Service Department director-general Tan Sri Ismail Adam that Cuepacs should be urging civil servants to work harder at a time when the country was facing an economic slowdown and not threaten to refuse to work overtime.Omar was earlier quoted as saying that about 50,000 low-ranking civil servants did not want to do overtime work, but would instead do part-time work to make ends meet if they are not getting a promotion before May 1.He had said that these civil servants were frustrated because they had not been promoted even after serving the government for more than 25 years.Omar today said they had conveyed their grouses to the Cuepac leaders who would bring these up with the government."One of the grouses is unpaid overtime work," he said.-- BERNAMA
10/3/2009
KUALA TERENGGANU, March 5 (Bernama) -- Cuepacs on Thursday expressed regret over being accused of putting the government at ransom when about 50,000 civil servants refuse to work overtime if they are not paid for it.Its president Omar Osman said Cuepacs had no intention of threatening the government with such action, but to voice out the frustrations of low-ranking civil servants over the lack of promotion opportunities."Don't brand us as a threat...we are not issuing any threat," he told reporters when met at a workshop on salary review in the public sector, here.He was asked to comment on the statement by Public Service Department director-general Tan Sri Ismail Adam that Cuepacs should be urging civil servants to work harder at a time when the country was facing an economic slowdown and not threaten to refuse to work overtime.Omar was earlier quoted as saying that about 50,000 low-ranking civil servants did not want to do overtime work, but would instead do part-time work to make ends meet if they are not getting a promotion before May 1.He had said that these civil servants were frustrated because they had not been promoted even after serving the government for more than 25 years.Omar today said they had conveyed their grouses to the Cuepac leaders who would bring these up with the government."One of the grouses is unpaid overtime work," he said.-- BERNAMA
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