KUWAIT: KuwaitMunicipality is currently working in collaboration with the Kuwait Authorityfor Partnership Projects (KAPP) on offering six labor city projects to theprivate sector for investment, Kuwait Municipality Director Ahmad Al-Manfouhisaid. The labor cities will have buildings with spacious accommodation areasfor laborers, including all health, security, recreational and commercialfacilities for limited-income expats residing in Kuwait without their families,Manfouhi added.
According toManfouhi, the new labor cities include a 100,000 sq m meter township to thewest of the pilgrims gathering area, another of the same size to south of themunicipality's scrap yard, a third of the same size near Shadadiya industrialarea, labor accommodations in block five in Subhan, labor accommodations inblock 11 in Subhan and a 100,000 sq m labor city to the west of Mina Abdullah.
In anotherconcern, Manfouhi announced that the municipality will start receivingapplications for camp licenses from Monday on its website. He added that anagreement was made with the defense ministry to have campers sign affidavits topitch their camps at least two kilometers away from military camps and to keepaway from and report sighting any strange objects immediately.
Employeeperformance assessment
Senior sources atthe Civil Service Commission (CSC) stressed that the new employee performanceassessment method is the responsibility of each respective state department,and that the CSC does not interfere in the process, be that in the 70 percentallocated for individual and group performance and personal skills or in the 30percent concerning punctuality, attendance and commitment to punching in andout. The CSC official added that assessment is the full responsibility of theadministrative department in each respective body and that the CSC supervisesthe process.
Meanwhile,Chairman of Kuwait Nursing Society Bandar Nashmi Al-Enezi expressedsatisfaction with the meeting he and his colleagues had with CSC Director AhmedAl-Jassar to discuss nurses' problems and demand more privileges for Kuwaitinurses. Enezi added that Jassar fully understood the demands and said Kuwaitinurses will get new financial and academic privileges soon. "We discusseda new salary framework, paying nurses full salary while pursuing furtherstudies and considering nursing as an arduous profession," heexplained.
By A Saleh