The national Ministry of Labor and Public Service has cautioned public and private institutions not to offer employments based on ethnicity. 

Currently, the ministry is waiting for the labor policy to be signed into law, and that will regulate employment process.

The undersecretary for Labor, Helen Achiro, said the new law once it is signed, it will prevent what she describes as ‘tribalism in government and private institutions’.

Madam Achiro said most of the public and private institutions offer employment based on ethnicity.

“You go to some of the organizations you find that all the people who are they are either all from Eastern Equatoria, Western Equatoria, from Bahr el Ghazal or Upper Nile,” Madam Achiro stressed.

If the bill is made into law, members of the ministry would take part in the recruitment processes.

“We are going to ensure that if there is any vacancy that is supposed to be filled, the Ministry of Labor must be part and parcel of that team of selection so it is in the process,” she added.

Madam Achiro said 80% of the vacancies in the non-governmental organizations should be filled by nationals.

“Apart from this as a government, we have a policy that eighty percent should be nationals in any organization whether in UN agencies, NGOs or companies and so forth.”

She was speaking during the celebrations of the World Population Day in Juba yesterday.