KUALA LUMPUR: Disciplinary action had been taken against 20,434 public servants in the last five years since 2009 for various wrongdoings, said Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, Datuk Seri Shahidan Kassim.
He said of this number, 4,743 public servants were sacked, 125 demoted and not to be considered for promotion within a period of 48 months, while 963 were given a salary cut and not considered for promotion within 36 months.
"Another 2,048 had their salary movement suspended and would not be considered for promotion within 30 months, while 3,491 were stripped of their rights to emolument and not considered for promotion for a period of 24 months.
"Also, 3,373 public servants were fined a maximum of seven days' emolument and not considered for promotion within 18 months, while 10,531 were issued warnings and not considered for promotion within 12 months," he said in reply to a question from Datuk Johari Abdul (PKR-Sungai Petani) in the Dewan Rakyat, here, today.
Shahidan said the total figure also took into account the multiple disciplinary actions taken against some of the civil servants.
To a supplementary question from Datuk Ar Wan Khairil Anuar Wan Ahmad (BN-Kuala Kangsar), Shahidan said so far, no disciplinary action had been taken against civil servants who did not show loyalty to the government of the day.
Wan Khairil wanted to know whether the government would reconsider the proposals and terms of new appointments as practised in the private sector, involving 'hire and fire' and 'reward and punishment' to improve the quality of public servants.
"Warnings, fines, salary cut, demotion and sacking are sufficient punishment at the moment.
"Besides, the integrity unit set up at the public agencies will continue to undertake efforts to raise public servants' level of integrity and accountability towards excellent service delivery," said Shahidan.
NST Online
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