Flexible working hours at the Municipal Council

KUWAIT CITY, Oct 5: The Acting Secretary General of the Municipal Council (MC) Dr. Fahad Al-Otaibi issued an administrative circular yesterday to declare that the official working hours in the Secretariat General of the Municipal Council will be as per the flexible working hours, which is seven working hours from Sunday to Thursday.

According to the circular, the start of work will be between 7:00 am and 9:00 am. An employee is allowed to report at any time within that period, and they can leave work after completing seven working hours from the time they reported to work.

This timing is applied without prejudice to the grace period specified for the employee at the beginning of the work which is 30 minutes, or the 15-minute grace period set for female employees at the end of work, or the permission system or other rules and provisions contained in Civil Service Council Resolution No. 41/2006 regarding the rules and provisions governing flexible official work in government agencies. The circular specified three controls for calculating the grace period and the delay period for reporting at the beginning of work, as follows:

1. The grace period is calculated at the beginning of the work day after the end of the last attendance time, that is, after 9:00 am.

2. The minutes of delay at the start of work are calculated after the end of the grace period set at the start of work from 9:30 am.

3. The hours for seeking permission to leave work are calculated after the employer approves, at the beginning of the work day from the time specified by the employee during the period from 7:00 am to 9:00 am.

The aforementioned controls are not applied to those subject to reduced working hours or those subject to the system of partial absence without pay for any reason.

The working hours for this category are from 7:00 am to 2:00 pm or from 7:30 am to 2:30 pm, or from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm or from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm. In addition, the employees in the aforementioned category are obligated to notify the Administrative Affairs Department about the timings they have chosen through their departments, within five working days of the issuance of the circular.

By Inass Awad
Al-Seyassah/Arab Times Staff