KUWAIT CITY, Feb 15, (KUNA): Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister and acting president of the Civil Service Council Sheikh Dr Mohammad Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah presided here Monday over a meeting of the Council at Bayan palace.
Further, president of the Civil Service Commission Abdul Aziz Al-Zabin said that he today listened to a reveiw by the World Bank experts who currently on a visit to Kuwait to analyze a study of the salaries system and privileges reserved for the public sector civil servants.
Al-Zabin added in a statement to the Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) following this meeting that this study came out with a report that focused on studying the salaries system and civil service advantages on one hand and the dominant trends and their correlationship to the development model in Kuwait on the other hand.
He went on to say that, “this report drew some conclusions on the public recruitment policy that is marked by accepting the majority of Kuwaitis in the civil service compared with the policy of bringing labor from abroad to work in the private sector and the influence of this on the market labor structure, the productivity rates and the job performance.” On the nature of the recommendations embedded in the private report of the analytical study of the salaries system and the privileges reserved to the public servants, Al-Zabin said that the World Bank experts asserted that the main goal of this report is to verify the analysis of the data of this study.

He added that the World Bank experts, “focused on the analytical studies that paid attention to the outcomes including the heirarchy system of the civil service salaries and the recruitment policies according to the productivity and the influence of all of this on the market labor in general in what includes both of public and private sectors and its relation to increasing incentives of achievement in study and the educational development.” The experts added that, “in view of the current immigration policy and the current system of salaries and incentives for the civil servants, this status will directly lead to a low productivity whether at the public or private sector along with high rates of unemployment, low rates of joining the educational institutions and complementing study.” Al-Zabin also said that all experts, “asserted that the outcomes of this report point out that all effects resulting from the current system poses a big challenge and a hurdle before investment in the human resources and if given measures are not taken, their consequences may last for many generations in the future, pointing to some international models of expertise that can be followed on this respect in what is most suitable to Kuwait’s condition.” The Kuwaiti cabinet had before entrusted the World Bank of offering technical assistance to the CSC in order to evaluate the salary structure and the privileges accorded to the civil servants alongside appraising a number of other patterns in order to be taken into account when reviewing the current system.
This aims at raising the productivity rates of the civil servants and improving the levels of public service provided to the citizens.