In Pavlodar, Arman Omarov, head of the construction department, suggested that his subordinate resign and was summoned before the Ethics Council. The employee herself filed a complaint with the civil service affairs department, providing an audio recording of the conversation, infohub.kz reports.
According to the disciplinary case, during a conversation with the employee after work matters had been discussed, the department head used the following phrases: "Asem, please tell me, what is keeping you here?", "Why have you latched onto this place and are you messing with our heads?", "Latched onto... this place. I don't understand," "Are you unhappy? Then go, why are you messing with our heads here?"
The construction department head repeated the suggestion that his subordinate resign several times, while pointing out that she herself did not want to work. There were no raised voices or obscene language in the conversation, but the matter was nonetheless referred to the Ethics Council.
Arman Omarov asked that it be taken into account that the conflict had a backstory. "Why did I use the word 'provocation'? Because a task had been assigned to this employee under a protocol. It was demonstratively not carried out, which is, in principle, why such a conversation took place. In addition, a collective complaint had been filed against this employee. At that time, facts became known that in a work chat this employee had used obscene language toward colleagues and directly toward the supervisor, that is, me. There were also conversations about my death," Arman Omarov explained.
The construction department head admitted his guilt. The Ethics Council noted that the atmosphere in Arman Omarov's team was generally concerning. The city akimat's staff needs to pay attention to this — sit down at the negotiating table and steer all conversations back into a working channel. As for punishment, the official was recommended to receive a reprimand.