ILD 2023:MINFOPRA recognizes and honours it’s best workers

In the menu for this year's celebration of the International Labour Day, the  best workers  of MINFOPRA for the year 2022 have been publicly honoured and recompensed before the  officials and staff of the Ministry of the Public Service and Administrative reform. They are 38 in number, men and women from all departments of the central services as well as the deconcentrated services of MINFOPRA.

Every year, the international labour day is celebrated to recognize the contributions  of workers to the development of societies world wide.  For this 137^th edition themed “ resilience and decent work: working together in the world of work to improve living conditions and social inclusion" several activities were registered  on the menu of the Ministry of the Public service and Administrative reform.

Amongst others, to crown the match past which took place at the 20^th May boulevard  this Monday  May 01, 2023, in the presence of the Minister of Labour and Social security, Gregoire OWONA and other members of government, MINFOPRA recognized and honoured its newly elected best staffs as well as the overall best staff, Mr PENDA NYAME Blaise, sub director in charge of established personnel in service at the department of  career management

The exercise for the election of the best workers of MINFOPRA was launched by Minister Joseph LE in 2022, with aim to  vote and honour the best workers of every department. Following specific criteria such as discipline, punctuality, work ardour, cleanliness etc, staff of different departments were encouraged to vote their best workers from the two categories( staff) and (agents). After the first level of votes by universal suffrage at departmental levels, those elected were then carefully  screened according to the pre-selected criteria and voted by top officials and directors of MINFOPRA. A last and definite level was the screening and final vote of the Minister who also had the discretion to choose the best worker overall.

Given that every worker also deserves motivation from hierarchy, certificates of recognition, cash prices of 50,000 – 500,000frs   as well as other Administrative benefits were given to compensate the best workers of all structures of  the central and deconcentrated services.

Speaking at the ceremony to celebrate this day,  the delegate of the personnel, Mme BO’O ZAGNA Marie Chantal expressed the request of MINFOPRA workers to the head of department and encouraged staff to respect rules of ethics and deontology of the Public Service and remain professional in the discharge of their duties.

In his speech, Minister Joseph LE congratulated the recipients and frowned at workers who have remained adamant in promoting bad practices, especially those who mishandle user’s career documents. He called upon all directors to be more vigilant and hit hard on bad workers. He warned that very drastic sanctions would henceforth be served to   staff who retard the treatment of files for more than 30 days or actively  participate in bribery and corruption and sale of public services to users.

Amongst others, he promised that following the speech of the delegate of personnel, the following have been considered in this year’s budget for the wellbeing of workers; the security of workers in central and deconcentrated services, provision of water and electricity in all offices, examination for the increment of incentives to augment motivation to workers, Rehabilitation and refurbishment of some work spaces etc. The ceremony ended in animations and reception.