Retiring parliament officials may have their terms extended

[webfact]

 

Parliamentary officials can now have their service time extended, after they reach their mandatory retirement age, initially for four years and then to 10 years, under an amended service regulation published in the Royal Gazette Friday.

 

The extended service program will be limited to those whose skills, expertise or knowledge are needed in parliament and which cannot be easily replaced.

 

Another requirement is that they must have a clean performance record and have never been the subject of an investigation into a gross disciplinary violation.

 

Full story: https://www.thaipbsworld.com/retiring-parliament-officials-may-have-their-terms-extended/

 

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[Orinoco]

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The extended service program will be limited to those whose skills, expertise or knowledge are needed in parliament and which cannot be easily replaced.

Is that just the long way round to say we need more time at the Trough.

[RichardColeman]

2 hours ago, webfact said:

Parliamentary officials can now have their service time extended, after they reach their mandatory retirement age, initially for four years and then to 10 years

Ah, no election for the next 4 years then

[klauskunkel]

4 hours ago, webfact said:

skills, expertise or knowledge are needed in parliament

You sure about that? Is it either/or, or all of the above that's needed?

I mean does it apply to an MP with a particular skill set, like fetching stuff, roll-over and sit, but having no knowledge or expertise besides finding Mom's house when necessary?

In any case, it is a needy parliament indeed that has to rely on dinosaurs in their dotage...

[hotchilli]

8 hours ago, webfact said:

Parliamentary officials can now have their service time extended, after they reach their mandatory retirement age, initially for four years and then to 10 years, under an amended service regulation published in the Royal Gazette Friday.

Disgusting.

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Ah, no election for the next 4 years then

Possibly 14.

[mikeymike100]

I am well and truly shocked!!

[ThailandRyan]

The citizens of this country need to stand up and start playing whack a mole with these greedy trough feeders......ugh, however its not only Thailand that has this problem.  Think Nancy Pelosi etc... even Biden in the US.  Lifetime political lives....

[grandpa]

I think that this is related to the civil servants who serve Parliament and has nothing to do with extending the time of MPs!

 

[Reposed]

More appropriate would be prison terms......

[Sydebolle]

The trough is not empty yet and the swines are not ready to leave anytime soon ............ a failed state and I assume that the electorate was - again - not asked (as if it would have mattered)!

Every country has the government it deserves - I was told at school back in the day. Not too sure if this still applies .......... but then, who am I to ask? 

[kimamey]

1 hour ago, grandpa said:

I think that this is related to the civil servants who serve Parliament and has nothing to do with extending the time of MPs!

 

Yes that's the way I read it as well. I do wonder why it doesn't apply elsewhere than just in Parliament?

[Orinoco]

1 hour ago, grandpa said:

I think that this is related to the civil servants who serve Parliament and has nothing to do with extending the time of MPs!

 

What,  you mean the ones who carry the stacks of brown envelopes to there friends and family members. 

[zzaa09]

11 hours ago, Orinoco said:

Is that just the long way round to say we need more time at the Trough.

Nothing more pleasing than a fully appointed government and it's kin.