Employee salaries are crying out for help from inflation...and the new ladder has become a dream!

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[size=52]Employee salaries are crying out for help from inflation...and the new ladder has become a dream![/size]

[size=45]Enas Flip[/size]
[size=45]According to leaks and a draft of the draft law amending the salary scale, and through a letter from the Secretariat in which it responded to a parliamentary inquiry about amending the law, Al-Mada obtained a copy of it, on Tuesday, the committee concerned with examining the disparity in the salary scale among state employees submitted its recommendations and is still under study. .[/size]
[size=45]The increase in salaries for the lower grades according to the new scale is supposed to be 150 percent, specifically for “tenth grade” employees whose monthly salaries do not exceed 340 thousand dinars.[/size]
[size=45]The number of public sector employees is approximately 4 million, after the recent wave of appointments, which calls for establishing a new salary scale that achieves justice among state employees.[/size]
[size=45]Despite Prime Minister Muhammad Shiaa al-Sudani’s directive to study the salary scale and amend it, the governmental and popular confusion over its approval is still continuing until the moment, as the economic advisor to the Prime Minister, Mazhar Muhammad Saleh, confirmed that “the picture is still ambiguous regarding amending the salary scale, but it must in any case.” Adjusting the low salary scale within reasonable limits that allows a person to live.”[/size]
[size=45]The economic advisor revealed that there are two directives to legislate the salary scale law. The first is to amend the salaries of the lowest grades for employees and retirees, while the second is to amend the salaries of all state employees, indicating that the last direction requires political consensus.[/size]
[size=45]For her part, member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Ikhlas Al-Dulaimi, says: “We were surprised, after presenting the salary scale project, by the refusal of some ministries to reduce the salaries of their employees and subject them to the classifications of the law to be legislated, because they have their own laws and regulations.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Dulaimi added in her interview, which was followed by (Al-Mada), “If the amendment of the new salary scale proceeds to raise the value of minimum salaries without achieving functional and social justice, we will not vote to pass it, because the goal of the legislation is to subject all state employees to the new salary scale.”[/size]
[size=45]Many government ministries were formed in the Council of Ministers, including the Ministries of Finance and Planning and other ministries, to prepare a study for the new salary scale law, but this study was delayed for more than five months.[/size]
[size=45]Close to impossible[/size]
[size=45]Economic experts noted the negative impact of amending the salary scale on the general budget, especially since it would cause a “surge” in expenditures in light of the rise in the number of employees from the ground up and then their salaries would be raised, while they praised the law and considered it “fairness” to many employees, especially the low grades.[/size]
[size=45]While they stressed that this amendment will pass independently of the budget because it is permanent, they suggested that it be legislated next year, so that its allocations would be added to the budget and be fixed.[/size]
[size=45]Economic researcher Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Mashhadani explains to (Al-Mada): “It is very difficult to approve a new salary scale in which all job grades are equal, because there are professions that need to remain with high allocations and there is a risk rate and work outside the cities, and an example of this is the security forces that are on salaries.” Its members have high risk rates.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Mashhadani adds, “There are specializations whose privileges or allocations we cannot cancel until we add to the remaining specializations. For example, the security forces have allocations such as the soldier in the ninth and 10th grades. This means that approximately more than two-thirds of the security forces are in the eighth, ninth, and tenth grades, in addition to the electricians who They have 90 percent incentives, 60 percent Primer allocations, and 30 percent Ministry Law allocations. Here they need to be given allocations, but they will be equal to the one who works inside the Ministry’s headquarters and the one who is exposed to the risk of being electrocuted by energy towers or falling from high places. Therefore, the Ministry’s headquarters is supposed to take 30 percent and 90 percent to whoever deserves it.”[/size]
[size=45]justice[/size]
[size=45]Dr. Al-Mashhadani added, “Workers in the oil field also have other suffering. There are employees who work in remote areas, so they need an incentive to search for oil and solve the problem. As for workers in remote areas, such as the Samawah Desert, they receive the same allocations as the employee who works at the ministry’s headquarters.” Also, university professors, as they have an external scientific project in addition to additional teaching, as well as discussions, often have supervision, but this matter does not require wages, and this ruling is regarding university service allocations, which will be 100% with a standard that differentiates from the rest in terms of salary, so that he can carry out these tasks, then. The solution is at the lower grades, which start from grades (10, 9, 8, and 7), which the government can raise from the minimum salary to the highest.”[/size]
[size=45]As for the salaries of the three presidencies, Al-Mashhadani said to (Al-Mada), “The salaries of the three presidencies do not constitute the number of employees’ salaries, except for the three presidencies now, which are 62 or 63 trillion, as all the three presidencies with their protections do not exceed a trillion.”[/size]
[size=45]The Parliamentary Finance Committee, in its last statement, said that “the salary scale is outside the budget so far, because the issue is related to a committee that was formed by a court order,” noting that “it was the government that studied and re-evaluated the salary scale and distributed expenses during the fiscal year to the employees themselves in grades.” And varying amounts,” indicating that “this matter is still under study by the committee that was hosted in the Finance Committee to find out what steps they have taken and listen to their comments.” She pointed out, “The issue of the salary scale has not been presented to the Council of Ministers yet,” indicating that “it is awaiting the economic advisory opinion regarding the latest amendment, as well as the observations of the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers.”[/size]
[size=45]Law[/size]
[size=45]Returning to the origin of the matter, the salaries and allocations of state and public sector employees were determined in accordance with Law No. 22 of 2008, and a text was stated in Article 3/Second that “The Council of Ministers may amend the salary amounts stipulated in the salary schedule attached to this law in light of the high rate of inflation to reduce its impact on the level.” General living for employees,” but former Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi issued Cabinet Resolution No. 366 of 2015 amending the salary schedule attached to the Salaries of State and Public Sector Employees Law No. 22 of 2008, which was published in the official Iraqi newspaper Al-Waqa’i and was deemed effective as of November 1. 2015, and in accordance with this decision, the number of job grades was reduced to 10 and a slight amendment was made to the salaries of some grades by increasing their limits and reducing the salaries of grades starting from the first, which caused a decrease in the nominal salaries of the first categories of employees by an amount of 38 thousand dinars and less, which is a measure that did not satisfy the majority of employees, as it was done. That was at a time when she indicatedData from the Ministry of Planning and other governmental organizations and civil society indicate that there was inflation in prices during the years 2008-2014, and some believed that salaries would be adjusted after the improvement in the security situation that the country experienced and when the state’s revenues from oil exports increased, but this did not happen!![/size]
[size=45]Trapped in expectations[/size]
[size=45]Most Iraqi state employees are impatiently awaiting the approval of the new salary scale, which may do justice to many segments of them regarding the disparity and unfairness in the amount of salaries between one ministry and another, and one institution and the like, as the issue of the new salary scale has appeared clearly recently through the media and social media, by addressing the issue from different sides. Several politicians have confirmed that it will be approved as soon as possible, but until now it is still trapped in expectations and dreams, and nothing looms on the horizon of its approval. It seems that it has become another means that politicians take advantage of to win over the street and a new address from which they can start in preparation for new electoral votes.[/size]
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