Ex-employees accuse AOP of nepotism, ethnic discrimination

KABUL (Tolo News): Over 30 employees of the Administrative Office of the President (AOP) who were recently fired from the jobs in a letter to TOLOnews accused the AOP of nepotism and ethnic discriminationion toward certain people. They said the AOP fired them from the jobs for no logical reasons.

However, officials from the AOP have said that these employees were fired from their jobs due to organizational inflation. 33 employees who were fired were working in two separate entities within the AOP. “The government entities are not allowed to make mass dismissals of their employees without having permission from the Ministry of Labor– the mass dismissal means the lack of job safety,” said legal expert Wahid Farzayee.

The fired employees said that new people were assigned to their posts after their dismissal. Ex-Employees Accuse AOP of Nepotism, Ethnic Discrimination Over 30 employees of the Administrative Office of the President (AOP) who were recently fired from the jobs in a letter to TOLOnews have accused the AOP of adopting nepotism and ethnic issues towards certain people.

They said that the AOP fired them from the jobs without any logical reasons. But, officials from the AOP have said that these employees were fired from the job due to organizational inflation. 33 employees who were fired were working in two separate entities within the AOP.

“The government entities are not allowed for mass dismissal of their employees without having permission from the ministry of labor, on the other hand, the mass dismissal also means the lack of job safety,” said legal expert Wahid Farzayee. The fired employees said that new people have been assigned to their posts after their dismissal.

“There are also other entities where employees have not job safety, whenever another chief takes the charge, he fires the elites,” said MP Abdul Zahir Tamim. “They deal with it politically, these approaches have devastated the country and the people have lost their trust in the government,” said MP Ibdalullah Mohammadi. The Labor Ministry has so far not commented on the matter. Previously, similar issues were reported in other government entities including the Ministry of Mines and Petrolem and the Ministry of Public Works.