The Government withdrew today, Thursday, the 22nd, from the proposal for a collective work break which, according to a document which the Kianda’s mail had access, would run from December 23 to January 3, 2023.
At issue, according to a source with the Government, is the leak of information long before it was published in Diário da República, which would have displeased the president.
In this way, civil servants must comply with the normal functioning of institutions during working hours and working days, contrary to previously published information.
The document circulated on the 12th of December, says that the Angolan Government had presented the project of decree that determines collective work pause, in the civil service, from the 23rd of December to the 3rd of January of the following year, with recourse to the Basic Law of the Civil Service, Law n.º 26/22, of 22 August, which enshrines, in its article 87º powers to the President of the Republic, the faculty of enacting the pause.
The measure is expressed in the draft Presidential Decree that approved the Collective Labor Pause of central and local public bodies and services of the public administration, of 7 articles, where article 3 determines the need for institutions to establish a work schedule, in the period in which concerned, through a map, maintaining a staff of 50% of workers in all organs of the central and local administration of the State.
With that, tomorrow all civil servants should be present at their institutions.
Government determines Collective Labor Pause from December 23 to January 3
