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"WE KICKED HIM OUT": PSC chairman Mohan says Permanent Secretary for Communications and Information Technology, Ewan Perrin, kicked out for poor performance but why blame him and not the Aussie recruiters! 

12/5/2016

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“These people [Ewan Perrin] have been recruited with certain expectations, that is why we went global to recruit first class people, what we thought were first class people. Sometimes, we find them and sometimes we don’t. This happens in any establishment which is unfortunate. He [Perrin] came with good credentials, we thought he would meet our expectations but there were some gaps and we had to do what we did for the betterment of the country” -
PSC chairman Vishnu Mohan

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Ewan Perrin (left): We are still to PIERCE through the fog surrounding his departure

“30,000 Civil Service jobs to be re-advertised:
Intake on Merit” - Sudhakar

 "It won't be like people call and say, it's whom you know kind of situation, if you know the person, you will get recruited, and it's no longer that system. It used to happen that senior civil servants would just appoint their family members, put them in their department and suddenly promote them to senior level - that will stop." - Ashneel 'Mortein' Sudhakar

MERIT APPOINTMENT, WHAT MERIT? None of these lot got jobs on Merit

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Xavier Khan (Biosecurity), Mohammed Saneem (SEO), Ashwin Raj (Human Rights Commission and MIDA chairs), Riyaz Sayed-Khaiyum (FBC CEO), Lawrence Tikaram (Post Fiji), Faiz Khan (Tropik Woods), and many others who can fill up the entire page here who have not been appointed on MERIT
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Intake on merit
Thursday, May 12, 2016
Fiji Times


THE Government will re-advertise more than 30,000 civil service positions to ensure that all intakes are merit-based.

This is a move by the State to ensure efficiency within the civil service as the restructure of public servants picks momentum.

Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Justice, Law and Human Rights, Ashneel Sudhakar, whose committee is overseeing the 2014 annual report of the Public Service Commission, now the Ministry of Civil Service, said those employed in the civil service would need to re-apply for their jobs.

Mr Sudhakar said as part of the re-advertisement of the positions, new positions would be on contractual basis, pressuring civil servants to perform or ship out.

"So what used to be the Fiji Public Service Commission will now become the Ministry for Civil Service and what that means is that we had the old belief that once you enter the civil service, you are there for life, it's a life insurance and whether you perform or not, you just hang in there until you retire then you get your pension," he said.

Mr Sudhakar said those who had been appointed in the civil service on the basis of nepotism had more reason to be concerned.

"It won't be like people call and say, it's whom you know kind of situation, if you know the person, you will get recruited, and it's no longer that system.

"It used to happen that senior civil servants would just appoint their family members, put them in their department and suddenly promote them to senior level - that will stop."

He said the recruitments would be merit based - meaning that if you were the best person for the job, you would get it and then performed at optimal level because the next person who was below you could always overtook if he or she performed better. "It's like the private sector where you cannot be guaranteed of a job that you are there, do whatever you want and nobody will take you out. In the civil service, that is the attitude.

"So when you go to the hospitals, when you go to the Ministry of Finance, you don't want a person who does not know how to serve you. We want the best service to be delivered to the people."

He said as part of the reforms, some civil servants would be offered with options which include:

* Phasing out or retirement;
* Replacement of those appointment without merit and;
* Transfer within ministries

Mr Sudhakar said the time frame of the new changes would take two-three years and advertisements of positions would start soon.

Civil Service Ministry permanent secretary Bernadette Welch, who also presented to the committee yesterday, said for civil servants, their expectations would be embodied in their performance agreement.

Ms Welch said civil servants performance would be monitored through the performance management system and would be subject to review.

"Those who had been appointed in the civil service on the basis of nepotism had more reason to be concerned." - Sudhakar

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8 Comments
Mohani
12/5/2016 11:06:41 pm

Those who appointed an incompetent man must be kicked out. They are the incompetent lot. And how much did we pay them? Word on the business corridors is $2.25m.

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Pita
13/5/2016 12:07:58 am

Based on his own criteria Vishnu Mohan should be the first to hand in his resignation after Consumer Council CEO Premila made the shock statement last week that ANZ, the bank that Mohan led as CEO, along with other banks in Fiji failed to cut their bank fee rates by 50% after Govt introduced changes in last year's budget. This is outright dishonest and Vishnu as the top ANZ mean in Fiji should be held accountable.
ANZ's fiddling with the fine print Has also got itself into trouble in Australua where it along with Westpac are currently under investigation for collusion in artificially propping up fees for inter bank loans that were then passed on to customers.
But under Khaiyum's dual legal system the law is never applied equally without fear or favour as the case of the delayed hearing of Praveen Bala shows.cIf any Permsnent Secretary contravened the law of the land to fiddle with the fine print to the detriment of the public and benefit to himself and his Ministry he would be fired.
Mohan has absolutely no credibility and should step down as PSC Chair

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genius
13/5/2016 03:16:39 am

Why do we have to get incompetent people from overseas on higher salaries when we have so many qualified and talented people locally. There is abundance of expertise at home! Give them first chance even if they are not FFP supporters. They will serve the people with honesty like I did and entertained any wastage or abuse of public funds. FFP will not get any result from these so called experts! No one gives a shit about them in their country. Get out Vishnu, you dumb idiot!

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Naibono
13/5/2016 08:19:58 am

As always you kb warriors found a reason to beat your chest, scream, spit and curse. Yeah do it hard and maybe that will make you feel better.

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Thinker
13/5/2016 08:30:43 am

Was this PS worse than PS for Women, PS for political parties, Supervisor of election n bai' s daughter?

All hopeless 'yes' sir types are still employed.

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Inqui
13/5/2016 08:37:36 am

well..well... maybe we should get Perrin's view before commenting. What was he expected to do and how did they come to the conclusion that he was unable to perform? Maybe he did the mistake to criticize the government in some way? Generally, honest and competent people get kicked out of Fiji at some point...

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Fiji First Party
13/5/2016 09:13:59 am

How does Ewan Perrin feel about being ‘kicked-out’ so, so unceremoniously…?

And what does Ewan Perrin has to say about his competence and/or his alleged incompetence?

Ewan Perrin’s side of the story is of immense public interest - so can the now newly trained Fiji media enlighten us on his views in this saga – Please!

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Fiji First Party
13/5/2016 09:24:35 am

Would all of these 30,000 CS jobs be exclusively advertised in the Fiji Sun? The "Presstitute" would be belly 'appy !

And what (f any) is the reaction of the Civil Service Union (FPSA) at this colossal job insecurities within their membership.

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