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‘Salary scale amendment to cost govt KD 350 million’

Move to redress 40% workers

- Used a crane to pull out the SUV from the deep ditch. No casualties were reported in the incident.

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.

The fire department was called which

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.

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