Times Of Swaziland: CIVIL SERVANTS GETTING  PAID FROM MONDAY

CIVIL SERVANTS GETTING  PAID FROM MONDAY
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BY SIBONGILE SUKATI on 11/01/2018 00:40:00


MBABANE – Spend wisely. This is the message that has been sent to civil
servants by the Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Public Service, Evart
Madlopha.
This follows a memorandum from the office of the Accountant General (AG)
informing the public servants that they would receive their salaries as early as
Monday next week.
The salaries have already been run and from Monday until Friday, the public
officers should be getting their January salaries.
The early pay comes after the about 35 000 civil servants were paid their
December 2017 salaries early as has been the norm by government for its
employees during the festive season or Christmas holidays.
The PS first thanked government, in particular the Ministry of Finance, for
working extra hard to ensure that there was enough money available to pay the
government workers early this month.  He said this would enable them to pay for
their children’s educational fees as schools would be opening in just under
two weeks.
“My advice would be for them to spend the money wisely so that the children
are able to go to school. We cannot have a situation where children are at home
because the money has been misused,” said Madlopha.
It should be noted though that the civil servants will have a long month after
their early payment next week because come February 2018, government will revert
to pay them on their normal pay dates which is normally from the 20th of each
month.
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