Civil Service Council holds review meeting

Muscat: The Civil Service Council on Sunday held its fourth meeting of the year under the chairmanship of Sayyid Khalid bin Hilal Al Busaidi, Minister of the Diwan of Royal Court, and Chairman of the Civil Service Council.
The meeting reviewed the report on the implementation of the decisions and proposals of the third meeting for 2017.
Afterwards, the meeting also discussed a number of topics relating to requests for appointment and contracts for some technical positions in the light of the jurisdiction of the Council in this regard. The council discussed the reasons of such requests in terms of their importance to the functioning of the concerned authorities and the exercise of its terms of reference assigned to it, particularly in the area of the completion of the technical aspects associated with its work and the implementation of their own projects.
Job conditions
It also reviewed a number of topics from various government institutions regarding regularising job conditions for some categories of staff to be in line with the terms of reference of their institutions and the duties and responsibilities of their jobs according to the legal provisions in the Civil Service Law, its implementing regulations and the job classification system.
It also discussed the applications by a number of public organisations about their seconded employees abroad who require to combine between the basic salary with the employer and the salary from the organisation he is seconded for, as per the provisions of the Civil Service Law and its executive regulations.
The meeting reviewed a number of other topics on its agenda sent by various ministries and government units and took the appropriate decisions and recommendations in their regard.