No rush to fill 4,000 public service jobs, says Sabah CM
Shafie said that although the state has not been hiring to capacity, there has been no retrenchment of or shortening of service period for civil servants. — Bernama pic
Shafie told the House that Sabah is currently among the highest in emolument spending in the country at RM1 billion per year and a reduction of the civil service would not affect its existing force. “We will also employ trade-off of vacancies which are no longer relevant to allow positions formed for more strategic and critical ones especially in management and professional group,” he said in reply to Klias assemblyman Datuk Isnin Aliasnih, who asked what steps the government was taking to reduce staff.
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