No reimbursements for allowance cut for taking leave: AG

Attorney General’s Office has said that civil servants did not need to be reimbursed the amount cut from their service allowance previously for taking leave.

High Court on November 2015 ruled to remove clause from Civil Service regulation that said amounts from service allowance could be cut if civil servants took leave. After which a civil servant filed a lawsuit saying that he be reimbursed the amount cut from his service allowance for taking leave.

In response to the lawsuit, AG Office said that the clause had been removed on November 17, and that the government did not need to reimburse civil servants for amounts cut from their service allowance for taking leave, before that.

Civil Service Commission had also asked for AG Office’s counsel regarding the lawsuit.

High Court had ruled that the clause in Civil Service regulation contradicted with the right for civil servants to enjoy specified paid leaves given to them by Maldivian Constitution.