The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved 14- day paternity leave for civil servants in the country.
The Head of Service of the Federation, Folashade Yemi-Esan, revealed this to State House correspondents at the end of the FEC meeting that was presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Yemi-Esan said henceforth, the annual leave would be calculated based on working days instead of days of the calendar.
According to her, Annual Performance Evaluation Review (APER) and Promotions had been substituted with a new Performance Management System.
The Head of Service said: “We presented a memo on the revised Public Service Rules (PSR), and we are all aware that the PSR is an old important tool in the public service; it is what governs the actions of public servants at work.
“The last time these rules were revised was in 2008; and so, we recognise that the revision was long overdue.
“And so, we put everything that we got to ensure that we did the vision; these rules ideally, are supposed to be revised every five years.
“But this has taken more than that for us to get the revised PSR 2021.’
“We set up different committees to look at what we got; and finally, a technical committee that consisted of permanent secretaries serving and retired and directors were put together to look at the zero draft that we got.
“After they reviewed it, we took it to the National Council on Establishment.’’
