(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency) Razzaz pointed out that the Cabinet has approved a number of decisions and measures that will be implemented during the coming period, among which is the amendments to the civil service system.
In this regard, the prime minister said he had directed the Minister of Public Sector Development and the Civil Service Bureau to take all observations on the system and reconsider them.
"We are confident that the public sector employee is fulfilling his duty when he receives training, support, encouragement and incentives, while applying the principle of reward and punishment," he said, stressing that the public sector can be creative.
The premier said one of the topics that has recently been raised is the suffering of cancer patients, pointing out that the Health Minister is looking into issue and there is clear guidance that the dignity of the patient is the first priority.
He added that a card for each cancer patient will be issued instead of the current bureaucratic procedure which requires the patient to check with the al-Bashir Hospital and then be referred to medical committees.
He explained that the new procedure entails that the patient shall be directly referred from the hospital in his area of residence to the King Hussein Cancer Center (KHCC) or university and medical services hospitals as needed.
Turning to another issue, the prime minister said the government has received many observations about private schools and the unjustified increase in fees without raising teachers' salaries, stressing that the government is in the process of issuing a system to license these schools that would regulate and control school fee hikes.
The new system will require schools to deposit teachers' salaries with banks or through an electronic portfolio at the Central Bank, to ensure that minimum wages are met and that teachers are not denied wages in the summer.
On ministers' pension, Razzaz said it is not accepted that the minister obtains a life-long pension for a service of two or three months, while the employee works for decades to obtain a pension, stressing that he has given directions to reconsider the civil retirement law, especially ministers' pension.
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