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BusinessTech reports that all government departments and their components have been directed to stop the practice of requiring certified copies of documents not older than three months to accompany applications for employment.
This decision follows complaints raised with President Cyril Ramaphosa on social media and through other channels about the onerous requirements for compliance with public sector job applications. The Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) has issued a circular – Human Resource Planning and Employment Practices: Circular No 35 of 2019 – which makes it clear that the prescribed application for employment form (Z-83) and the Public Service Regulations do not prescribe a three month timeframe for certification of documents that accompany applications. The Presidency said this change would also reduce the workload that the certification of documents created for the SA Police Service personnel, who would now be able to devote more time to their core function of ensuring that South Africans were safe. Departments have been advised to at least accept certified copies of documents submitted with an application for employment that are up to six months old, in those cases where the document certified does not have an expiry date that falls within the six-month period. This change does not, however, replace the personnel suitability checks set out in the Public Service Regulations of 2016.
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