Attariq [Archives:2005/902/Press Review]

6 Dec. 2005
Main headlines

– Ex-Yemeni president Ali Nasser Mohammed supports the JMP initiative, deeming it suitable ground for national dialogue

– Yemen and Pakistan signed a number of agreements

– Trial of defendants accused of Sana'a blasts continues

– Three persons killed in tribal clashes in Abyan

– Surplus labor in Aden demand increase in their salaries

On the strategy of salaries and wages the writer Arif al-Dhirgham says the strategy that has been implemented recently in the state institutions has basically come for raising the standard of living of the Yemeni citizen and to fight poverty. Its aim is also to bridge the gap between high prices that covered everything and the citizen's ability to get suitable wages to face the high prices. The writer says that what has happened in practice came contrary to what the state was hoping from raising of wages and salaries of its employees. In comparison between the strategy's wages and the employees' former salaries some of them were surprised that their salaries in the payrolls had dropped in thousands of riyals. Despite of that drop the new salary of the employee was subjected to income tax and deductions of the social security as a later pension salary.

The writer claims there must be some failure I that strategy or in its application in a way it seems to be concentrating the phenomenon of poverty and not to fight it. The writer maintains that there must be a treatment for this failure so that the concerned sides in the government would correct it and to give assurance to the employee and worker that there were some kind of unintentional mistakes.
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