{"id":66188,"date":"2020-03-17T18:31:52","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T10:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=66188"},"modified":"2020-03-17T18:49:17","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T10:49:17","slug":"covid-19-civil-servants-to-work-from-home-till-march-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=66188","title":{"rendered":"Covid 19: Civil servants to work from home till March 31"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/civil-servants-director-1024x714.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-66192\" width=\"196\" height=\"136\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/civil-servants-director-1024x714.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/civil-servants-director-300x209.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/civil-servants-director-768x535.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/civil-servants-director.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 196px) 100vw, 196px\" \/><figcaption>File Photo of PSD Director General Datuk Mohd Khairul Adib Abd Rahman. Photo courtesy of BERNAMA<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>PUTRAJAYA, March 17 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; All civil servants in Malaysia have been ordered to work from home following the\u00a0nationwide\u00a0movement control order which will be enforced\u00a0from tomorrow, March 18 until March 31st\u00a0to\u00a0curb the spread\u00a0of COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However,&nbsp;Public Service&nbsp;Department (PSD)&nbsp;director-general&nbsp;Datuk Mohd Khairul Adib Abd Rahman through a circular&nbsp;today said it was for the department&nbsp;heads to decide which essential services required officers&nbsp;to come in to work&nbsp;at the office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said those who have been ordered to work from home must adhere to&nbsp;the&nbsp;instructions&nbsp;given&nbsp;including to be at home during&nbsp;the stipulated fixed working hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Always be prepared to be called to&nbsp;the office or any other location and make sure to be reachable during the working hours,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mohd Khairul Adib said disciplinary action could be taken against officers who failed to comply with the said matters except&nbsp;with the permission of their department heads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Officers are subject to the Public Officers Regulations (Conduct and Discipline) 1993 [P.U.(A) 395\/1993] and other regulations issued from time to time whichever is&nbsp;appropriate,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mohd Khairul Adib said the order is also applied to all state&nbsp;public services,&nbsp;statutory bodies and local authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PUTRAJAYA, March 17 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; All civil servants in Malaysia have been ordered to work from home following the\u00a0nationwide\u00a0movement control order which will be enforced\u00a0from tomorrow, March 18 until March 31st\u00a0to\u00a0curb the spread\u00a0of COVID-19. However,&nbsp;Public Service&nbsp;Department (PSD)&nbsp;director-general&nbsp;Datuk Mohd Khairul Adib Abd Rahman through a circular&nbsp;today said it was for the department&nbsp;heads to decide which essential [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":66192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66188"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}