Mchunu encourages public servants to work from home

Mchunu encourages public servants to work from home

As more and more South Africans head back to work under Level 4 of the lockdown regulations, Public Service and Administration Minister Senzo Mchunu has urged public servants to work from home.

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Mchunu briefed the media in Pretoria on Friday. 

 

He said the department is working on a framework that will allow employees to work remotely and adhere to social distancing requirements. 

 

"The department will be working on a framework that articulates details, norms, and standards that should apply to many public servants that will be working from home.


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"We need this framework that will detail and guide the behavior that should apply to public servants from home.”

 

He said each departments has the responsibility to ensure that employees have the necessary resources.

 

"Departments are also required to set up internal Covid-19 steering committees who will put in place implementation plans at the different levels of alertness to demonstrate how departments will ensure service delivery with sufficient capacity for government services to return to normality.”

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