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Fingerprinting, Regular Working Hours In Ministries & Govt Agencies Resume
The fingerprint attendance system and regular working hours in ministries and government agencies resumed after more than a year of suspension, amid expectations that such a resumption will lead to a remarkable increase in the number of employees who will retire and the number of new employees, reports Al-Qabas daily.
Employees have many obligations aside from recording the arrival and departure times in their respective workplaces through the fingerprint devices, as they have to be in their workplaces for a certain number of hours. It can be recalled that when the Civil Service Commission (CSC) canceled the decision to exempt certain employees from the fingerprint attendance system in 2017; some of these employees expressed displeasure over the decision, leading to the retirement of many and appointment of new employees. According to official figures in 2017, the number of employees who retired within six months from the date of implementing the decision reached 14,000 and the number of appointments increased to 24,000 within one year. Many are wondering if such a scenario will be repeated this year.
Young Kuwaiti employees constitute the majority of the workforce in the government sector — 47.5 percent of the national workers are below 35 years old as per the statistics from the Central Statistics Bureau. It will take 20 years or more before these workers retire; thereby, weakening the ability of the government sector to absorb a larger number of employees. On the other hand, 8.5 percent of Kuwaitis working in the government sector are above 50 years old. Their inclination towards retirement could open the door for creating job opportunities for young people who are about to join the labor force. Some are thinking that the resumption of the fingerprint attendance system might speed up the retirement plan of those who are about to retire, as well as the appointment of new employees.
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