Iraq Finance Committee: an expected increase in the salaries of retirees ...

29/11/2011

Development allocations «cost of living» and the settlement of the salaries of staff

Finance Committee: an expected increase in the salaries of retirees

Baghdad, Tariq al-Araji - Alaa al-Tai

Recommended that the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers, the relevant committee to reconsider the pay scale, taking into account the grades lower, and the settlement of the salaries of staff in all ministries, with the introduction of provisions under the heading "cost of living" added to the salaries are variable.

This comes at a time in which he disclosed the President of the Finance Committee in the House of Representatives for Haider Abadi, an expected increase in the salaries of retired next year, while the opposition said the World Bank to increase staff salaries, but he stressed that the amendment will be on the scale of salaries currently approved.

The Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers on the Keywords, in a statement singled out the "morning" that the said Committee which was formed recently held its first meeting at the end of last week, attended by members of the House of Representatives and a representative of the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers and the relevant ministries.

He added that the General Secretariat of the Council Ministers urged the Commission to follow several steps to improve staff salaries, the most prominent review of the salaries of the lower grade so they can cover living expenses that are rising steadily.

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He Keywords that the second recommendation stressed the importance of finding the system ensures that the difference in salaries between the Ministry and the other, rounding differences, with The third recommendation to address the problem of high prices and keep pace with annual inflation by calculating the allocations under the name of "cost of living" through which to control the wage bill by adding the amounts varying according to economic conditions.

The Keywords that there is another committee to consider reviewing the salaries of retirees, stressing the importance of the subject of all these procedures to studies that are based on the basis that takes into account the financial obligations of such an increase, with no effect in the amounts allocated to the services and projects. revealed in this connection that the differences that were calculated in the salaries of employees of the Ministry of the Interior commissioned the state treasury three billion dollars, in addition to one billion and five hundred thousand dollars, the value added to the salaries of staff of the Ministry of Education.

He noted the Secretary-General of the Council of Ministers to work in the peace of the new salary is subject to the completion of the law was passed and approved by the government and parliament, expected to take several months. within therefore, the head of the Finance Committee in a statement to the "morning": that "there is a tendency to unify the pension law and safeguards for the public and private sectors, and we expect to see pensions increase, are now prepared a draft law by a committee of the membership director of retirement and the Ministry of Finance commissioned by the Finance Committee of the Parliament.

He added, Abadi said the current trend is in the guarantee "the rights and pensions in the public sector and private sectors and improve the pensions of the owners of the lower tiers, especially that some of their salaries are not enough to meet the breath to live a segment ruled a large part of her life in service of the state and asked through a surplus in the current year to improve the salaries of retirees, as it must be a minimum of pensions appropriate to not more than what is received by an employee of State of his peers and vary depending on the points that enjoyed by retired and taking into account years of service and witness.

"ruled out the Chairman of the Committee of Finance" there is an increase close to the salaries of the employees, but he said that there is an amendment to the law of the salary scale is currently in the Finance Committee.

He reported the existence of objection from the World Bank to increase in the allocations of salaries that was completed this year for the staff of the Ministries of Interior and Education, and to raise salaries again must take the approval of World Bank to increase the operating budget because the non-productive salaries clause of the state and this creates problems.

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