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Table 13 PBO vacancy rate as at 31 March 2023
Position
Number of posts
Number of posts filled
Vacancy Rate
Demographics
Male
Female
African
Coloured
Indian
White
Director of the PBO:
1
1
100%
African Male
1
1
Personal Secretary to the Director of the PBO
1
1
-
African Female
1
1
Office Manager
1
1
-
African Male
1
1
Office Coordinator
1
1
-
White Male
1
1
Deputy Directors (Deputy Director Finance post is in the process of being filled)
3
2
33.33%
White Female Coloured Male
1
1
1
1
Analysts (Policy Analyst post is vacant unfunded)
6
4
33.33%
2 x African Females; 2 x African Male
2
2
4
Total
13
10
23.08%
Source: PBO RSA supplied data
4.3 Compensation of employees
Gross annual expenditure for compensation of employees (COE) for the 2022/23 FY, for the entire PBO workforce amounted to R15 428 797.24. The COE expenditure was incurred across three salary bands, namely, C band, D band and E band. As a knowledge organisation, a significantly large proportion of the allocated gross budget goes towards COE.
4.3.1 Performance management
For the period 2014/15 FY i.e., since the establishment of the Office up to the 2018/19 FY, no qualifying employee on the D-level salary band ever received a performance bonus. This situation impacted directly (adversely) on the ability of qualifying employees to move upwards, i.e., to qualify for a notch increase if they had received a performance bonus as per the institutional HR policy of Parliament. As a result, the salary level of qualifying employees remained stagnant on the same level except for the living cost adjustment increase (annual salary increase) all State employees receive annually.
Performance bonuses and notch increases were paid for the first time for the 2019/20 FY to all qualifying employees on the C to D salary bands. This was the first time that Office personnel on the D-salary band had received performance bonuses and notch increases since the 2014/2015 FY. At the time of the writing of this report, performance bonuses for the 2021/22 FY had not been finalised by Parliament to all qualifying Parliamentary officials due to ongoing negotiations with the labour union.
The Director has requested the Human Resources Department to prepare an initial performance assessment reports for the workforce from 2021 until 2023 financial years. This report would enable the Director to give full effect to the five-year employment contract terms currently used by the Office. In line with the Money Bills Act, this report is to be presented to the PBO Advisory Board.
PARLIAMENTARY BUDEGT OFFICE ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE 2022/2023 FINANCIAL YEAR
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