Civil Service Resolutions
STATE OF BAHRAINRESOLUTION NO. (5)
COUNCIL OF MINISTERSSeries 300
CIVIL SERVICE BUREAU3rd July l977

Resolution No. (5) for 1977
Regarding
The employment temporary workers based on daily salary

3. Daily hire workers will occupy positions that have been properly classified under the job evaluation system that pertains to the Government service and to Government employees. This type of employment generally applied to positions in lower grade-levels but is not restricted to the lower grade. Daily hire workers will be paid from the regular pay scale that pertain to Bahraini employees. They will be paid a daily rate of pay which is computed from the rate of step 2 of the grade of the work assigned by dividing that monthly rate by 30 and rounding off fils to the nearest 5 or 0. They are not entitled to the social allowance, and will be paid at two week intervals.

4. The Ministries are delegated the authority to initially engage daily hire workers, however the provisions of this circular must be observed when the employment of daily hire workers is undertaken or extended. The Ministers should ensure that daily hire employment is adequately controlled and properly budgeted for. They should also ensure that daily hire employment is not used as a substitute for permanent employment. At the end of ninety days the daily hire employee will normally be separated. Requests to extend such temporary employment will be sent to the Civil Service Bureau with full justification of need for continued temporary status or a request to convert to regular permanent employment. Only one such extension will be granted.

5. No permanent Government employees may at the same time also be engaged as a daily hire worker.

6. A daily hire worker is not entitled to leave of any kind. Annual leave accumulations as of 30 June, 1977 of daily hire workers will be paid ,in a lump sum by the Government. Sick leave to the credit of daily hire workers as of 30 June 1977 will be for fited.

7. Daily hire workers who at present are actually employed on a permanent basis (i.e for a period in excess of 90 days) and who are less than 50 years of age and can pass both medical and police checks will be considered as permanent monthly employees as from let April, 1977 in accordance with the provisions of Resolution No.1 for 1977 and as indicated in Circular No. 1 for 1977. Their pay will be adjusted retroactively to 1 April, 1977. They will continue to be covered by the Pension Fund.

8. As of 1st July5 1977 daily hire workers will no longer be subject to coverage by the Pension Fund by reason of their employment for 90 days or less. They will be covered by social insurance and required to contribute to it.

9. Employees who are converted to permanent appointments will be converted to the 1 April, 1977 grade and salary schedules in accordance with provisions of Resolution No.1 for 1977. Those who continue to be employed as short term temporary workers (Daily hire workers) will not be converted to the 1 April, 1977 salary schedule but will be terminated and re-employed in accordance with the provisions of this circular.

10. The provisions of this circular become effective on the let July,1977. It will remain in effect until its provisions are incorporated into a permanent regulation.

11. The Civil Service Bureau and concerned units in the Ministries must follow these rules and they will be published in the Official Gazette.

JAWAD SALIM AL—ARRAYED
MINISTER OF STATE FOR CABINET AFFAIRS