Bahrain declares BD3,000 incentive for top performers in government sector

TDT | Manama    

The Daily Tribune – www.newsofbahrain.com

Outstanding government employees stand to receive BD3,000 as cash incentive.

This comes following His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, the Crown Prince and Prime Minister’s issuance of Edict (80) of 2023, amending some provisions of the bylaw determining the wages, employment benefits, and eligibility conditions for employees subject to the Civil Service Law, issued by Edict (77) of 2013, based on a proposal by the Civil Service Bureau (CSB).

Under Article 56 of the amendments, the reward will be given to one employee in government organisations with less than 1,000 employees as an ideal employee incentive.

In government organisations with more than 1,000 employees, two employees will receive the same incentive, subject to CSB approval.

Meanwhile, Article 53 stipulates that outstanding performance incentives are awarded to one or more employees as a single amount ranging between BD100 and BD500.

It shall not be awarded again until one year has elapsed since the previous one, as per the terms specified by the CSB. The edict states that an incentive allowance, a performance-related incentive bonus or a promotion shall not be combined during one year.

The CSB shall determine other cases in which benefits shall not be combined. Under Article 49, employees seconded to a higher level of employment, partial secondment or secondment to perform tasks of joint services shall receive a secondment allowance as a percentage of their basic salaries to be determined by the CSB.

The percentage shall be determined according to the type of secondment, the level of employment and that of the secondment. The percentage shall not exceed 10% of the basic salary in all cases.

Under Article 52, employees are given the following incentives: performance-based incentives, outstanding performance incentives, exceptional achievement incentives, and ideal employee incentives.

Employees may not receive more than two performance-related incentives in one year, nor one performance-related incentive and an incentive allowance.

The ministers, the president of the CSB, and those concerned, each in their capacity, shall implement the provisions of this edict, which comes into effect upon its publication in the Official Gazette.