Timorese Civil Servants: from employee with a contract to a permanent employee
In Timor-Leste, a civil servant with a contract can became a permanent civil servant only through a public competition. The experience and seniority in the job are not yet a passport to the State’s civil service structure. The President of the Public Servants Commission (Portuguese acronym CFP), Libório Pereira, remembers, for example, of the approval, in January of this year, by the Council of Ministers, of the “Resolution on the opening of public competitions for integration in the Public Administration General Career Regime”. This competition was for Employees with a Term Contract that perform functions as Pre-School, Basic and High School Teachers within the Timor-Leste Education System”.
The Public Servants Commission is currently preparing a proposal to present to the Council of Ministers “for the conversion of temporary employees with more that three years of service in the public service, to permanent employees” says the CFP President.
“The fact that more temporary employees exist than permanent ones is a problem that has to be resolved”, says Libório Pereira, adding that “if we continue with this situation we are going to have a less efficient public administration because the privileges are not the same, either for a permanent or a temporary employee. At any moment, a temporary employee can resign to find a more secure situation for himself”.
