Al-Sahwa [Archives:2005/825/Press Review]

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March 17 2005

10 Mar.2005
Main headlines

– Wages strategy, narcotizing injection to pass on the price dose

– Physicians and pharmacists union suspends strike, grant government a grace period

– Chechnya leader Maskhadov killed

– Female journalists without borders organization declared

– Malaria sweeps Bani Saad area

– Local and world denunciation against aggression on lawyers and journalists at capital secretariat appeals courtroom

– Prosecution rejects re-issuance of Al-Shoura newspaper

– Women National Committee denies what al-Mithaq newspaper has published of statements on Islah conference

Columnist Zaid al-Shami writes that after a long waiting and media propaganda and political preparation, the government has announced what it has called as wages strategy. The strategy project admits the existence of big corruption inside the state institutions and the employees performance is very low, criteria of salaries are incorrect. In addition, equality and justice in receiving salaries even by those holding the same degree are absent.

The new project deems the employee is a problem but not a human wealth, and should be ridden of. It has overlooked the possibility of benefiting from this wealth, rehabilitating and training it. Focus was put on the ridding of the largest number of those employees, which consequently would increase the number of the unemployed in the country and the destruction of hundreds of thousands of families. Despite that the talk about the strategy had begun four years ago, the project has drawn up a program for five years to be implemented by the year 2011. Because the government want to send to pension hundreds of employees, the project stipulated that the pensioners cases would not be considered but after the 2011. Pensioners are now suffering from negligence and low level of salaries. The new strategy has come with many problems needing to be another strategy to tackle and it has no clear-cut vision or definite financial figures that would make the employee feel that he would get a salary guaranteeing for him dignified living.
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