Liberia: CSA Implements Measures to Safeguard Civil Servants from Payroll Removal, Emphasizes Accurate Processing of Personnel Action Notices - FrontPageAfrica

Source: Front Page Africa
Author: Willie N. Tokpah

Monrovia - The Civil Servant Agency is urging personnel directors of various government spending entities, to begin the process of ensuring that personnel whose statuses are not regularized are properly processed.

By Willie N. Tokpah

The CSA said it has observed during its cleaning and scrutinizing process that about 40,000 civil servants incorporated into these spending entities between the period of 2019 to 2023, have not been regularized, while proper processing of Personnel Action Notice has not been adhered to.

Failure on the part of the Personnel Director to do so, CSA said the fate of this civil servant would be dangling.

Therefore, the CSA has given three months, beginning April 2, to June 30, 2024, to various Human Resource Directors of these spending entities, to properly process their Personnel Action Notice.

The CSA further emphasized the need for Human Resource Directors to provide the proper documentation for those affected by the situation to avoid them from being deleted from the payroll.

In another development, the CSA Director, Josiah F. Joekai, Jr., has lifted the freezes on direct replacement, beginning April 1, 2024.

As you may recall, on February 16, 2024, CSA Officer-In-Charge, Alfred Drosaye in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning, temporarily froze selected Human Resource operations, aimed at maintaining order on how spending entities move staff around, while being controlled by officers-in-charge.

At the same time, the CSA has reminded heads of spending entities of Chapters 3& 4 of the Civil Service Sanding Order of 2012, human resource movement to include intra and inter-agency transfers, promotion, and demotion as well as direct replacement and change of employee's payroll account details, which falls in line with its stub.

Meanwhile, the CSA wants Human Resource Directors to carry out this process, using the appropriate Personal Action Notice, as required by Section 35 of the Civil Servant Revised Human Resource Manual of September 2014.