(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency)
Amman, July 28 (Petra) -- Prime
Minister Bisher Khasawneh Sunday said his
government had approved the new HR law, allowing public employees to work outside official working hours without affecting workers' productivity and commitment to their official work.
Khasawneh said his government had decided on the law after an "in-depth" impact study on allowing public sector employees to work outside official working hours, noting that according to the general impact measurement, the total number of public sector employees who have obtained permits to work outside official working hours is "relatively limited and less than a thousand employees in the entire public sector."
He added that the Council of Ministers provided compelling reasons for introducing an amendment or addition to the HR law that allows work outside official working hours for public sector employees "according to very transparent controls'"
He explained that the office authorised with issuing work permits would not be an "individual entity," adding that there would be neutrality in issuing the permit, whether it is from a committee, body or reference based on a set of standards developed by the Ministerial Legal Committee and the Legislation and Opinion Bureau.
He added that allowing public sector employees to have a second job "is an exchange of benefits and expertise," noting that there are public sector employees who have the qualifications, experience and expertise to provide an academic addition if available or wish to lecture at universities or in a sector such the information technology sector."
On public sector modernising, Khasawneh added that his government has taken many legislative, procedural and structural steps, including gradually abandoning the "positions within a gradual mix and mixture that begins with a percentage allocated to inventory in government competition so that this percentage increases at the expense of inventory until the positions are finished in 2027."
On political modernisation and the parliamentary elections, Khasawneh said the government's commitment to the royal directive to entrust the Independent Election Commission with conducting these elections "impartially, fairly and efficiently within the context of the Commission's exclusive jurisdiction to manage the elections and to provide it with the enablers and support role, each within the scope of its jurisdiction."
Khasawneh said, "As we are on the threshold of the beginning of the elections period, the directive is for us to provide the Commission with everything it requests from us, taking into consideration the constitutional limits that state that the Commission is the constitutional body concerned with managing and supervising the electoral process and that we only provide the enablers to the Commission."
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