Frontliners working overtime during this pandemic are not given meal allowances. The Minister for Health Dr Ifereimi Waqainabete said there was no provision of overtime and meal allowances for civil servants in the last Budget. Dr Waqainabete said the Health Ministry has able to provide meals for frontliners at hospitals, screening centres, vaccination areas and check points. He while speaking in Parliament said frontliners will be given extra day offs for the extra hours they have worked during this pandemic. “The issue of overtime is right throughout the civil service, as you are aware that in this current Budget year, that was removed. We have not done any reductions in the salaries of any civil servant,” he said.
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By Josefa Babitu in Suva
The dream of putting a smile on his mother’s face on his graduation day from university has become one that will never happen for Gabriel Gade, after his mother succumbed to the coronavirus that has killed dozens of people in Fiji.
“My ultimate dream was to make her proud of all her sacrifices, battles in life and the love she gave me over the last 21 years of my life,” he told
Asia Pacific Report.
“My mother had to work all the time to pay off the mortgage, and I could tell that she was exhausted most of the time, but I think it was her love for her children that kept her going every day.