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Posted on Dec 29 2011
The Commissioner of Education expressed that the ambiguity of the Personnel Rules and Regulation pertaining to annual leave matters may have resulted in the premature payment of accrued annual leave to those who benefited from lax policy. If we follow the Commissioner’s justification, then this matter is preventable.
Certainly, if the particular rule was interpreted and resulted in a cleavage of thoughts, then one part could be said as principally valid whereby the advance payment of the annual leave would have been denied. On the other hand, the approving officials leaned more to the alternative interpretation by which they ruled as allowable and justifiable for the expenditure of public funds citing in the regulation that favored their way of interpretation. This is often the route taken by an administering authority of promulgated rules and regulations.
So, clearly the cause of the problem was the ambiguous rule. Knowing that the PSS Personnel Rules and Regulations was promulgated more than 25 years ago, this issue would have been resolved had it been revised and retooled to bring PSS current with present day trends and best practices. Because of this incident, the BOE should initiate the marching order to the Commissioner of Education and its Human Resource Management officials for the examination and revision of the present Personnel Rules and Regulations. We are in the digital age, and PSS is still toying with paper trails, and antiquated processes and procedures dealing with human resources management . As stakeholders of PSS, we deserve a little bit more intelligent and impacting effort from our professionals in charged with this matter and situation in PSS.
[B]Francisco R. Agulto[/B] [I]Chalan Kanoa, Saipan[/I]
