Iraq prepares a special plan for its employees’ salaries, costing 10 trillion dinars
The Finance Committee in the Iraqi Parliament revealed, on Thursday, its intention to prepare a special plan for the file of unifying the employees’ salary scale, indicating that its implementation costs 10 trillion dinars.
Committee member, Moeen Al-Kadhimi, explained to Shafaq News Agency that the Parliamentary Finance Committee had previously hosted the government committee concerned with the file of unifying the salary scale of state employees, and that it is working to find the necessary financial liquidity to achieve this unification.
He added that the number of employees exceeds 4 million, and that unifying their salaries requires nearly 10 trillion dinars, which necessitates financial allocations and amendments to the salary scale.
Al-Kadhimi pointed out that the Council of Ministers is the body concerned with amending the salary scale by approving a special law on salaries or the civil service law and sending it to the House of Representatives.
About 70% of Iraqi employees, estimated at five million employees, are demanding an adjustment in the salary scale due to what they see as “injustice and unfairness” compared to their peers in other ministries who are granted much higher allowances. The employees have threatened to continue their demonstrations if the procrastination and delay in their rights since 2008 continues.
The capital, Baghdad, and a number of governorates witnessed periodic demonstrations demanding an amendment to the salary scale, as thousands of employees took to the streets in mass demonstrations, heading to the Green Zone in the center of the capital, demanding an amendment to the salary scale in light of the high annual inflation rate.
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani describes the salary scale amendment file as a “sensitive issue,” stressing the need to “reach a formula that achieves justice.”
Shafaq.com