Government plans to force mass retirement of civil servants

A proposed amendment to the draft Federal Civil Service Bill has set retirement at 30 years of service or 55 years of age.

The government is preparing to introduce a legislative provision to summarily retire around 10,000 civil servants in a single sweep. The Ministry of Land Management, Cooperative, Federal Affairs and General Administration has drafted a fresh Federal Civil Service Bill containing a special, one-time provision targeted at bureaucratic downsizing.