Fiji - A job or a role in the trade union (2011)

Civil servants who occupy a position of responsibility within their trade union had to choose between their job and their role in the trade union. For example, the Minister of Education informed a high level member of the Department of Education who had been appointed as head of Second Level Education in Fiji but who was also Deputy General Secretary of the Fijian Teacher’s Union, that she would have to choose between her position within the Department or within the trade union. Trade union involvement can also have a bearing on the renewal of civil servants contracts.