Civil service disciplinary code needs review, head says

The disciplinary measures in place for civil servants needs to be reviewed, the head of the civil service, Mario Cutajar said today.  Addressing a Public Service Conference, Mr Cutajar said the disciplinary code for civil servants was not sufficient and the public service management code needed an overhaul. This he said would be finalised buy the end of the year.   Mr Cutajar said 250 simplification measures had been introduce last year, in a bid to cut out red tape. The government he said had pledged to offer a better service to citizens ,cutting out the need to shuffle from office to office to get something done. To this aim, three centres had been opened, in Qawra, Paola and Birkirkara, offering some 250 services in each centre. Three new centres would also be opened this year.  Mr Cutajar said he was not satisfied with the public's use of online public services and more needed to be done. He said all online services would be reviewed and online forms would be simplified.  "Some online services and forms need a lawyer to be filled in properly," he said.  Mr Cutajar said he had analysed the past few Auditor-General reports on the civil service and found that the same...

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