‘Salary scale amendment to cost govt KD 350 million’
Move to redress 40% workers
KUWAIT CITY, Dec 24: Senior ministerial sources said the amendment to the salary scale costs the state budget 350 million dinars, which aims to redress about 40% of the employees in the government, reports AlAnba daily.
The sources added, this comes within the government plan to link salaries and wages to inflation and employee’s productivity in the public and private sectors while at the same time protecting the fund for future generations.
The sources pointed out the situations of 40% of the employees will be adjusted compared to their counterparts in the same professions and specializations in other official bodies.
As for the expected changes to achieve this justice in the future, the sources said, no allowances will be deducted, for example, the study of job allowances and the calculation of the average value of the total allowances received by workers in the profession and the degree concerned.
As for job allowances, they are determined by examining the different amounts of allowances given to employees from different entities. A united policy is also established for each of those who carry out these tasks and A Kuwaiti citizen’s car was damaged as it fell into a ditch near his house where the ground gave way beneath it.
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to achieve justice through their application on all.
As for the advantages of adjusting the salary scale, the sources replied by saying justice in job allowances is ensured, especially that the basic salaries that depend on the employee’s degree and social allowances for children will not be affected.
Member of the Budget and Final Accounts Committee of the National Assembly MP Adnan Abdul-Samad said, “Nobody, including the regulator bodies, has the right to do anything with the restrictions imposed by the general budget of the State issued through a law”.
He stressed these bodies if they had observations on the budget constraints were supposed to show before the adoption of the law by the panel during the discussion of the budget.
“Recently, it has been noticed that some government agencies have exceeded budgetary constraints, which will be discussed in the committee during the coming period,” said Abdul-Samad.