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Singapore clears way for sacking poorly performing civil servants
31st July 1997
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One of the few safe havens for inefficiency in Singapore has at last been
removed with the announcement earlier this week that government civil servants
will be sacked if they do not produce. With almost zero unemployment, the
move is not causing too much controversy, with HR analysts suggesting that
it would not affect more than 5%. Like all South East Asian economies, government
employment is poorly paid compared to private enterprise, though there are
several civil service type perks, and with little competition for lower
to middle level positions, a small minority of workers are happy to live
a modest but easy life in public administration.
Now the Singapore government has moved, major abuses of this privelage will be reduced, hopefully developing an even more efficient Singapore public adminstration. Several Singaporean residents interviewed by our sources agreed with the move, claiming that it will raise the level of accountability closer to that of private enterprise.
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