Cabinet Secretary for Public Service and Gender Aisha Jumwa, has set out to remove public servants who have reached retirement age out of office.
While speaking on Thursday, February 22 during an interview with Citizen TV the CS said that since taking her position, she has realized that there are many employees who have attained retirement age still working in many public sector offices.
According to Aisha Jumwa, it has become a tradition to extend contracts for workers who have reached the retirement gap in the public employment sector, yet younger people are dealing with unemployment.
“I noticed that there are older people who have attained the mandatory retirement age, but you find that they go to maybe the PSC, and they get contracts. They have already retired and instead of going home they are offered contracts for two more years, one year, and so on,” said CS Jumwa.
CS Jumwa further stated that she has written to the Public Service Commission (PSC) to probe the matter and eject anyone who has passed the retirement age threshold.
“I wrote a letter to the PSC and told them that we have a law and if someone has attained the required age to retire aende akiendanga so that we give younger people opportunities,” the CS added.
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Moreover, CS Jumwa said her proposal will provide room for a seamless transition for university students into the working sector.
The CS also opined that unemployment has become so grave that university graduates have continually knocked on her office asking for jobs over the past few months.
Furthermore, Aisha Jumwa argued that the solution has been blocked by a few individuals who do not want to leave the office.
“What will happen to university graduates who are looking for jobs, and I have been visited by many of them, yet there are offices they qualify to occupy but the positions are held with people who ought to have retired,” she said.
According to the PSC Act, 2017, the mandatory retirement age in public service is sixty years and sixty-five years for persons with disability.
