Author: Denyse Ealedona

37 Officers from 6 government agencies have been paid out at a cost of  K2,938,925.28 million as part of the Governments continued retirement exercise. The 37 officers were from (name the officers) who were paid out through the normal payroll process on pay 17. Department of Personnel Management continues to facilitate the retirement exercise and is…

Public Servants from offices housed at the Central Government Building at Waigani received their covid-19 vaccination today (Friday 8th October). Two heads of agencies were among those who received their vaccinations when the NCD Provincial Health Authority Team provided the service to those departments housed at the CGO. The Secretary for Department of Personnel Management…

Department of Personnel Management and the Royal Papua New Guinea Constabulary have signed off on a joint Circular that now sees the absorption of officers from what was then the Department of Police into the Royal PNG Constabulary. Speaking during the signing Secretary Ms. Taies Sansan said, the occasion marks bringing to a close the…

The 2 day workshop aimed at training HR and Planning Managers of line agencies on how to formulate and write Key Result Area’s (KRA) has seen a good number of participants from line agencies attending the workshop. Deputy Secretary Executive Resourcing Services Vele Ravugamini in addressing the participants said, compliance has been the challenge hence…

DPM’s GESI Whole of Government team have continued their meetings and presentations to government agencies to enable them to understand, adopt and begin implementing the GESI policy. The staff of the office of Library & Archives were encouraged to support the implementation of the GESI policy in their organisation. Speaking to the executives of the…

A database has been created to be used for all information of public servants who are intending to contest the 2022 General Elections. A presentation on the database was made to Secretary Ms Taies Sansan by members of the Technical Working Group. The database will hold information about all public servants who resign to contest…

The retrenchment exercise of abolished line agencies has been completed. The exercise which commenced in 2018 following an NEC decision to abolish a number of agencies was completed after Department of Personnel Management was tasked with implementing an NEC decision. The abolished agencies are Coastal Fisheries Development Agency, Office of Urbanisation, PNG UNESCO which were…

The retrenchment exercise of abolished line agencies has been completed. The exercise which commenced in 2018 following an NEC decision to abolish a number of agencies was completed after Department of Personnel Management was tasked with implementing an NEC decision. The abolished agencies are Coastal Fisheries Development Agency, Office of Urbanisation, PNG UNESCO which were…

Secretary Ms. Taies Sansan has announced a number of achievements by the Department in the past 9 months. Secretary Sansan announced these achievements when addressing the staff during a staff gathering on the eve of Independence to commemorate the 46th Independence anniversary. Ms Sansan said, despite the continued challenges brought on by covid-19 – the…

The establishment of a policy framework to guide the need for public servants to be able to do salary variations through Salary Packaging for allowances like school fees, mortgage etc. would be a way forward should Salary Packaging be accessible to public servants. These were among some of the issues Secretary Ms Taies Sansan is…