The Ministry of Civil Service was a governmental body in Saudi Arabia that is responsible for arranging the affairs of public employees. It was founded by a royal decree in 1999 to replace the General Bureau of Civil Service and Dr Muhammad bin Ali Al-Fayez served as its first minister. In February 2020, the Ministry was merged with Ministry of Labour and Social Development into a new ministry called Ministry of Human Resources and Social Development. Its Functions The ministry’s main functions are:

to plan the civil manpower as required by the government to guarantee that the civil servants’ competencies match the government’s requirements to recommend systems of civil service to improve the civil service to develop rules and regulations that keep the government employees’ records to collaborate with HR departments in different governmental entities

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