Civil Service Performance Bonus

Is it possible for a pregnant lady to get a rating above C+ then?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Is it possible for a pregnant lady to get a rating above C+ then?

Why not? Many have. But it's not easy, because the lady has 8 months of achievements compared to someone's 12 months of achievements.

It's not a sexist thing. If you remove the gender, and person A has achieved 8 milestones in a year, while person B achieved 10 milestones, all other things aside, it's only fair to award person B the better grade isn't it?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Why not? Many have. But it's not easy, because the lady has 8 months of achievements compared to someone's 12 months of achievements.

It's not a sexist thing. If you remove the gender, and person A has achieved 8 milestones in a year, while person B achieved 10 milestones, all other things aside, it's only fair to award person B the better grade isn't it?

Some more person B may have to cover person A while the latter is away. Is it fair to person B?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Some more person B may have to cover person A while the latter is away. Is it fair to person B?

Govt need to promote giving birth. If Govt can’t award a good grade for female giving birth, then who want to give birth?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Govt need to promote giving birth. If Govt can’t award a good grade for female giving birth, then who want to give birth?

haha then where is the merit? the 4mth leave and the monetary handouts are the award

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Is it possible for a pregnant lady to get a rating above C+ then?

Yes, it is all about how you want to approach this and also what kind of mindset you had about pregnancy and maternity leave. I have colleagues who value their career path as much hence, even on maternity leave they still continue to do some work at home. Their effort was recognised.

I have also seen some who just want to fully utilise all their benefit and boss have to activate another person to cover their job from pregnancy till come back from maternity leave. In this case, of course, they got the bare minimum.

It is not about sexist, more of one's choice.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Govt need to promote giving birth. If Govt can’t award a good grade for female giving birth, then who want to give birth?

If you are the op, then that explains why u got d.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Govt need to promote giving birth. If Govt can’t award a good grade for female giving birth, then who want to give birth?

What logic. Since when is giving birth a performance indicator in appraisal report? Based on your logic, mothers with boys should be scored higher?

Might as well say govt should reward mothers with free houses and pay for all expenses of children until they are 18 or 21 to promote giving birth.

Maybe the D given to "your friend" is really due to poor performance.

Agree with another poster on additional justification required to HR for poor performance. No boss will willingly give D unless they are really super pissed off with a staff that they have totally given up on.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Is it possible for a pregnant lady to get a rating above C+ then?

Yes, my RO was an asst director and went on maternity last year. Just came back and got redesignated to deputy director (basically skipped 2 ranks) and also got promoted

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Yes, my RO was an asst director and went on maternity last year. Just came back and got redesignated to deputy director (basically skipped 2 ranks) and also got promoted

Skipped 1 rank*