To combat absenteeism among civil servants, the Minister of Public Service and Administrative Reform, Joseph Le, announced to the National Assembly during the March session that a new IT system would detect absences.
This is one of the two remaining modules (out of the 14 planned) of the IT application for logical management of staff and payroll (Aigles). In addition to this initiative, Minister Joseph Le stated: “The implementation of the Aigles application with a biometric module is currently being finalized. This solution will contribute to the fight against absenteeism by automatically detecting employees’ absences from their posts and initiating disciplinary measures in accordance with current regulations.” »
This digitalization of absence detection complements other existing measures: systematic monitoring of staff numbers as part of the cleanup of the payroll and government personnel; anonymous reporting, which allows any case of absenteeism to be reported, thus triggering in-depth investigations; and the physical counting of government personnel, launched in 2018, “which has identified nearly 10,000 cases of absenteeism and whose litigation phase is soon coming to an end,” the Minister stated.
“However, we believe that with the Aigles application, which allows for better management of government human resources, staff assigned to remote areas will be more motivated to work there,” the Minister added. Joseph Le concludes: “Aigles allows for more modern, integrated, and efficient management, thus ensuring optimal and consistent management of government human resources.” This system is designed to motivate public officials to be present at their workstations.
