DISCUSSION
      UPDATE ON HUMAN RESOURCES RELATED MATTERS:
       FILLING OF VACANCIES
       VETTING OF OFFICIALS
       PROMOTIONS AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT POLICIES 
       DCS SKILLS PROGRAMMES
       MANAGEMENT OF SUSPENSIONS
      FILLING OF VACANCIES
      FILLING OF VACANCIES
         BRIEFING ON HR MATTERS – JUNE 2011
         INTRODUCTION
         The current structure was approved in 2003/4, requiring DCS to have approximately 
            60 000 posts. 
         By 2007/08 DCS funded post establishment was 46 874. In 2007/08 however, due 
            to DCS’s consistent inability to maintain a reasonable vacancy rate of 5%, National 
            Treasury suspended R522 million from DCS compensation of employees baseline, 
            with intention that once DCS could prove ability to fill vacant posts, that suspended 
            amount would be reintroduced into the baseline. 
         On 15 August 2008  DCS declared a partial moratorium on the filling of vacancies in 
            order to fund requirement to pay for overtime as per Resolution 1 of 2007. 
         In 2009/10, DCS funded the OSD once-off payment and the OSD translation 
            through maintaining a 100% moratorium, which resulted in a projected funded 
            staffing level of 41 500 and an actual staffing level of 40 953 as of 31 March 2010. 
         PROGRESS REPORT ON THE FILLING OF VACANCIES
            A decision was taken in February 2010 to start advertising posts to ensure 
             vacancies were filled. However this advertising was delayed due to the need to 
             determine which posts were Public Service Act posts and which were 
             Correctional Services Act posts.
           On the 1 July 2010, a decision was taken by senior management, to uplift
              the moratorium for filling of posts.
            A total of 3135 posts has since been advertised on various levels and 
             occupations. 
           Of  the  advertised posts, 1745 post have been filled. 
           A detailed plan has been put in place to address the variance.
  STATISTICS ON THE NUMBER OF POSTS ADVERTISED AND FILLED PER 
  REGION
                            NUMBER OF           NUMBER OF            NUMBER OF 
                               POSTS           POSTS FILLED       POSTS VARIANCE
   REGION                   ADVERTISED        (1 Apr 2010 – 31    (1April 2010 – 31 
                          (1 Jul 2010 – 31       May 2011)           May 2011)
                             May 2011)
   Head Office                  380                 226                  154
   KwaZulu/Natal                267                  92                  175
   Gauteng                      230                 104                  126
   Western Cape                 225                  93                  132
   Limpopo/Mpumalanga           303                  70                  233
   /North West
   Free State/Northern          257                  72                  185
   Cape
   Eastern Cape                 441                  72                  369
   Learnership (National)       1 032               1016                 12
   TOTAL                       3 135               1 745                1386