2024-01-29T15:14:31+00:00
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/ The Parliamentary Finance Committee revealed, on Monday, the existence of two proposals to amend the government salary scale and reduce the differences between employees of state ministries, while indicating that amending the salary scale requires an increase in financial costs of up to 11 trillion dinars.
Member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Mustafa Al-Karawi, said in an interview with Shafak News Agency, “Amending the employees’ salary scale is one of the government decisions, and the proposals of the Diwani Order Committee (24 of 2022) are with the Council of Ministers for approval.”
Al-Karawi added, “There are two proposals to amend the employees’ salary scale. The first is to redistribute the amounts allocated to employees in a way that achieves social justice.”
He continued, “As for the second proposal, which is to add additional allocations to ministries whose allocations are small, these proposals may be studied by the Council of Ministers, and we hope that the procedure will be quick to prevent the transfer and migration of employees with small allocations to higher ministries and to preserve competencies in all government institutions.”
He explained that “amending the salary scale requires an increase in financial costs of between 8-11 trillion dinars, and this is a high number, and the government must address it by finding solutions, provided that the budget law is not burdened with additional amounts.”
On January 24, 2024, Parliamentary Finance Committee member Mustafa Sand revealed that the funds allocated for salaries in the federal budget are not sufficient to make adjustments to the state employees’ salary scale.
Sand told Agency, “The value of state employees’ salaries in the general budget amounts to about 57 trillion dinars per year, and any amendment to the employees’ salary scale requires an amendment to the budget law before it is approved by the government and the House of Representatives.”
The Ministry of Finance issued a clarification on January 10, confirming that amending the employee salary scale is not the exclusive responsibility of the Ministry.
On March 13, 2023, after his meeting with the Committee for Amending the Employees’ Salary Scale, the head of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Atwan Al-Atwani, announced that the committee would proceed with the steps to amend the state employees’ salary scale in a way that achieves justice.
He explained that “the new salary scale is currently being presented to a committee of experts to give the final opinion, and then it will be transferred to the Council of Ministers for approval.”