Minister of Shura and Parliament affairs Ghanem Al-Buainain announced the acceptance of 8025 employees in the voluntary retirement program from among the 46 government agencies offering their employees for the program.

The civil service bureau in Bahrain said that 120 applications had been accepted for joining the voluntary retirement program and 84 had been canceled, in coordination with the government agencies where the applicants were employed

Minister Ghanem Al-Buainain did not lie when he said that “the Civil Service Bureau does not act alone, but implements state policy”. Yes, it favors foreigners and anyone who thinks otherwise is wrong.

Since 11 years ago, the Bahraini Ministry of Education has been holding a major annual festival attended by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa under the slogan “Bahrain first”, but this event did not manage to shift the king and government’s convictions, putting the Bahraini citizen first.

The number of foreign workers in the public sector has reached 15% of the total number of employees in ministries and government bodies, according to official statistics published by the local daily Al-Ayyam on Saturday (February 2, 2019).

CSB President said that in order to ensure the functioning of health services in the usual quality and ensuing that the course of the educational process and interest of students are not affected, it was decided that June 30, 2019 will be the last day for the employees who work in educational and administrative jobs in schools and who were accepted in the voluntary retirement program.

Organization and Budgeting director at Civil Service Bureau (CSB) Jamal Abdulaziz Al-Alawi said that the government entities have formally contacted their employees to inform them about accepting those who met the requirements and rejecting the ones who didn't meet the requirements of the voluntary Retirement program.

The President Of Civil Service Bureau Ahmed Al-Zayed stated that the annual promotion for 2019 will be handed out to all employees who have been accepted in the optional retirement program who fit the requirements according to the approved regulations, including those who are set to exit with the first batch on 31 January 2019 and the following batches.

Civil Service Bureau (CSB) Chairman Ahmed Zayed Al-Zayed said that the referral of those accepted in voluntary retirement will be on January 31, 2019 or February 28, 2019.

Civil Service Bureau (CSB) Chairman Ahmed Zayed Al-Zayed announced the number of employees who applied for voluntary retirement, which represents one of the six initiatives of the Fiscal Balance Program, reached more than 9 thousand.

The Civil Service Bureau said that tomorrow, Thursday (November 8, 2018), will be the last day to apply for the voluntary retirement and that replies will be received by November 28.

A Bahraini Civil Service Bureau source said that hundreds of government employees had submitted requests to withdraw from the voluntary retirement program.

The Bahraini Civil Service Bureau said on Sunday (October 14, 2018) that the number of applicants to benefit from the voluntary retirement program has reached more than 6,000 so far.

Official employees stressed that the Civil Service Bureau stopped granting improving of livelihood allowance to a number of official employees. The bureau also stopped paying administrative bonuses given to head of departments in a number of institutions.

Civil Service Bureau in Bahrain announced that the percentage of Bahrainis in the government sectors declined to 86% after it was 91%, after the increase of government reliance on foreigners throughout the past years.

Director General of Organization and Position Budget in Civil Service Bureau Engineer Jamal Abdulaziz Al Alawi said that the main organizational structure of 15 governmental bodies were studied in 2017.

Numbers revealed by Minister for Shura Council and House of Representatives Affairs Ghanem Al-Buainain showed that foreigners in the government sector constitute 16%, which means that they amount to 7742 employees.

Head of the Civil Service Bureau said that in line with the government's direction towards rationalizing and reducing government expenditures, the Prime Minister issued an edict amending some provisions of an executive regulation.

The Civil Service Bureau said that the personal accounts of governmental employees on social media outlets represent their owners only and that their tweets do not represent the stance of the governmental body they belong to.

ivil Service Bureau (CSB) President, Ahmed bin Zayed Al-Zayed, issued Civil Service Instructions 5/2017 for regulating, managing, implementing and controlling the manpower expenditure budget of the governmental entities for the fiscal years 2017-2018. The instruction is in line with the financial regulations to manage, implement and control of the government’s general budget, which was promulgated by Law 20/2017 on adopting the government’s general budget for the fiscal years 2017-2018.