Internal Promotion: 150 Million DH to Regularize 43,100 Civil Servants This Year
17 June 2011
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The quota for internal promotions has increased from 28% to 30% this year, and will be 33% from January 2012. 6,200 civil servants will benefit from this measure in addition to the 40,000 normally promoted each year. The additional budget cost from these new provisions is 300 Million DH per year.
One month after signing the social dialogue agreement, the government started to act on its commitments. Among other things, this includes raising the quota of beneficiaries of internal promotion to 33% of those who meet the conditions (previously 28%), and setting a maximum time limit of 4 years to move from one grade to another after being registered on the promotion list (see box), a measure that will come into effect on January 1, 2012. The quota increase will happen in two steps: from 28% to 30% from January 1, 2011, and from 30% to 33% from January 1, 2012. The draft decree 2-11-270 concerning these two points was adopted by the government at its council meeting on May 26.
Since 2008, the quota for internal promotions in the administration had already been increased twice. First, during the social dialogue in April 2008, it went from 22% to 25%, with an additional financial impact of 100 Million DH per year, and in February 2010, from 25% to 28%.
According to the Ministry of Modernization of Public Sectors (MMSP), the increase from 28% to 33% in the quota for internal promotions will benefit an additional 6,200 civil servants: 3,100 additional employees this year (from 28% to 30%) and the same next year (from 30% to 33%).
These 6,200 internal promotions, after the second year of application of the new quota (2012), will be added to the 40,000 that take place each year, the MMSP specifies. In other words, 43,100 internal promotions will take place this year with an effective date of January 2011, and next year 46,200 civil servants will benefit from the promotion.
The new 4-year waiting period will cost the State 1.12 billion DH
The financial impact of this measure on the State Budget, as detailed by the MMSP, is an additional 300 Million DH each year from 2012. This means that this year the budget will already be increased by 150 Million DH for salaries and social charges.
And it's not over: setting a new waiting period of 4 years for internal promotion will generate a cost of 1.12 billion DH in 2012, when it comes into effect. This means that next year many will have exceeded the 4-year waiting period, which explains the size of the budget allocated to the reclassification operation. This also shows, despite the efforts made, the accumulated delays in promotions.
This is why civil servant unions have always been very critical of promotions when they occurred several years later: for them, each time a promotion is decided, it arrives so late that whole groups of agents wait their turn, and so on. "Each time, it's to cover part of the backlog, depending on the available budget items, and this is presented to us as progress," a unionist indignantly stated. In any case, with this new quota and this maximum waiting time, it is certain that promotions will take place more smoothly than in the past.
How internal promotions work
Internal promotion works in two ways: either through a professional examination after 6 years in the grade, or by seniority after 10 years in the grade and on condition of being registered on the promotion list after this period. The problem that civil servants regularly raised is that, once registered on this list, after spending ten years in their grade, they risk waiting forever to be promoted.
From now on, as indicated above, this waiting period cannot, in any case, exceed 4 years. In other words, as Mohamed Hakech, UMT unionist, points out, this new deadline is "obviously a significant advance compared to the current situation, however, delays in promotions will not be completely eliminated, since only 30%, or 33% next year, of those who meet the legal conditions for promotion will be promoted." In such a situation, an official, because he is not part of the fixed quota, may wait 14 years (maximum) instead of 10 years to benefit from the promotion. This is why Mr. Hakech recalls "the need to carry out exceptional promotions to catch up on the delays."
Salah Agueniou
Published June 15, 2011
Posted online June 17, 2011
Lavieeco.com
One month after signing the social dialogue agreement, the government started to act on its commitments. Among other things, this includes raising the quota of beneficiaries of internal promotion to 33% of those who meet the conditions (previously 28%), and setting a maximum time limit of 4 years to move from one grade to another after being registered on the promotion list (see box), a measure that will come into effect on January 1, 2012. The quota increase will happen in two steps: from 28% to 30% from January 1, 2011, and from 30% to 33% from January 1, 2012. The draft decree 2-11-270 concerning these two points was adopted by the government at its council meeting on May 26.
Since 2008, the quota for internal promotions in the administration had already been increased twice. First, during the social dialogue in April 2008, it went from 22% to 25%, with an additional financial impact of 100 Million DH per year, and in February 2010, from 25% to 28%.
According to the Ministry of Modernization of Public Sectors (MMSP), the increase from 28% to 33% in the quota for internal promotions will benefit an additional 6,200 civil servants: 3,100 additional employees this year (from 28% to 30%) and the same next year (from 30% to 33%).
These 6,200 internal promotions, after the second year of application of the new quota (2012), will be added to the 40,000 that take place each year, the MMSP specifies. In other words, 43,100 internal promotions will take place this year with an effective date of January 2011, and next year 46,200 civil servants will benefit from the promotion.
The new 4-year waiting period will cost the State 1.12 billion DH
The financial impact of this measure on the State Budget, as detailed by the MMSP, is an additional 300 Million DH each year from 2012. This means that this year the budget will already be increased by 150 Million DH for salaries and social charges.
And it's not over: setting a new waiting period of 4 years for internal promotion will generate a cost of 1.12 billion DH in 2012, when it comes into effect. This means that next year many will have exceeded the 4-year waiting period, which explains the size of the budget allocated to the reclassification operation. This also shows, despite the efforts made, the accumulated delays in promotions.
This is why civil servant unions have always been very critical of promotions when they occurred several years later: for them, each time a promotion is decided, it arrives so late that whole groups of agents wait their turn, and so on. "Each time, it's to cover part of the backlog, depending on the available budget items, and this is presented to us as progress," a unionist indignantly stated. In any case, with this new quota and this maximum waiting time, it is certain that promotions will take place more smoothly than in the past.
How internal promotions work
Internal promotion works in two ways: either through a professional examination after 6 years in the grade, or by seniority after 10 years in the grade and on condition of being registered on the promotion list after this period. The problem that civil servants regularly raised is that, once registered on this list, after spending ten years in their grade, they risk waiting forever to be promoted.
From now on, as indicated above, this waiting period cannot, in any case, exceed 4 years. In other words, as Mohamed Hakech, UMT unionist, points out, this new deadline is "obviously a significant advance compared to the current situation, however, delays in promotions will not be completely eliminated, since only 30%, or 33% next year, of those who meet the legal conditions for promotion will be promoted." In such a situation, an official, because he is not part of the fixed quota, may wait 14 years (maximum) instead of 10 years to benefit from the promotion. This is why Mr. Hakech recalls "the need to carry out exceptional promotions to catch up on the delays."
Salah Agueniou
Published June 15, 2011
Posted online June 17, 2011
Lavieeco.com
