Employee absenteeism rate in government offices is high– Schools attendance high after holidays
Event Location
Kuwait, Kuwait
Start Time
08 March 2023, 12:00 AM
End Time
30 April 2023, 12:00 AM
Kuwait national holidays, which lasted for four days, were preceded by a high rate of absenteeism at workplaces under various justifications such as sicknesses and vacations. The employees’ attendance on Tuesday was “humble” with an absenteeism rate reaching about 20 percent.
Meanwhile, school students were more serious, as they recorded much higher attendance, especially at the secondary level, reports Al-Rai daily. On the Tuesday after the end of the holidays, work resumed in various government agencies but the employee attendance rate in the offices of those agencies was weak.
According to administrative sources from more than one government agency, the attendance rate on the first working day after the end of the holidays ranged between 80 and 83 percent, while the remaining percentage were on official holidays, with the exception of some emergency absences. The sources said they expect the shift rates to get normal at the beginning of next week.
They revealed that, “The Civil Service Commission is strict in calculating periods of absence from working hours as part of employee evaluation work, because it is linked to rewards for excellent work.” Meanwhile, informed sources in the Civil Service Commission (CSC) indicated that some government agencies entered the dates of attendance and departure of their employees in CSC systems from the period preceding CSC’s circulation of manually reactivating the fingerprint system in the integrated CSC systems.
Kuwait national day 2023