Government ascribes it to technical problemsEmployees worried for delay of increment payment [Archives:2005/875/Business & Economy]

The Yemeni government delay in implementing the national strategy for wages has produced angry reactions among employees. The minister of civil service Hamoud Khalid al-Soufi, on his part, said the mechanism of moving to the first phase of the general structure of wages strategy was going on by a high rate at both central and local authorities. Presently, work is focusing on categorizing all employees of the state in all units of the public civil service and fixing wages scales for all military, security, diplomatic, academic, research, media, and health positions as well as other jobs.

At the time the employees viewed the delay in spending the in crease since July, as an attempt for acting playfully with the increase adopted by the parliament and issued according to a law, the government confirmed its seriousness in expending the increment with retroactive effect payable as from July. The government also approved implementation of the strategy from the minimum point the law has fixed at 20 thousand riyals.

Mr al-Soufi said also that rules of general movement and implementation of the increment according to the law and directions of the strategy necessitate many technical and procedural works. One cannot move forward without implementing them, clarifying that there are tasks need speed to finish by units of the civil service as a condition for shifting to the structure. This depends on circulations and instructions issued by the ministry of civil service for the implementation of the strategy and the law. Without that measure, there could not be any moving to the general structure in a manner moving with corruption, failures and illegal situations.

The ministry of civil service is presently preparing for moving to a new employment description structure founded on omission of non-existent employees from payrolls and ending all cases of accrediting, unengaged with work and seconding to other job, vacation without salary, cases of sending on scholarships of those floundering in performing their job duties or any other cases, from payrolls. In addition, there should be confirmed information that the employee has his own file at the site of his work according to rules of civil service as well as application of the unified system of salaries.

It is expected that the increase in salaries and wages to expended at the end of September after all concerned parties have finished identicalness of the database at each of the civil service unit to the central database and revising financial dues. This is in introduction to move to the general structure defined by documents and legal texts as well as the principles of wages strategy received by administrative public units from the ministry of civil service.
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