THE government is considering giving special leave to civil servants involved in voluntary post-flood cleaning work, Chief Secretary to the Government, Mohd Zuki Ali said.

He said the special leave was to enable more civil servants to assist in the cleaning operations following the floods, especially in the badly affected areas that require more manpower for the task.

“Many (civil servants) wish to be volunteers to help the flood victims but, in some cases, they don’t have a suitable channel to do so, besides being subjected to the regulations like not being allowed to go out during office hours.”

Zuki said this to Bernama after handing out the Bantuan Wang Ihsan (BWI) to 132 household heads affected by the calamity at the flood relief centre in Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Sri Tualang in Temerloh, Pahang today.

Also present were Pahang police chief, Ramli Mohamed Yoosuf and state Tourism, Culture, Environment, Plantations and Commodities chairman, Mohd Sharkar Shamsuddin.

Zuki said the special leave would be the same as that announced by Communications and Multimedia Minister Annuar Musa yesterday on the unrecorded leave given to the ministry’s workforce (and those of its agencies) who became volunteers under its ‘Assist Until Completion’ programme. – Bernama, December 28, 2021.