Thursday July 3, 2008
Government drops bi-monthly salary plan
PUTRAJAYA: Civil servants will not receive their salary twice monthly from next month, said Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan yesterday.
He said this was decided by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, thus the salary for civil servants would be paid once a month as usual – payment in two instalments a month to facilitate management of expenses would not be implemented.
“The civil servants themselves, as pointed out by Cuepacs, feel that it is not necessary for them to be paid twice a month, so we won’t implement it,” he told reporters when asked about it after launching the Study Report on the National Integrity Perception Index 2007, here.
On the latest demand by Cuepacs for the cost of living allowance for civil servants to be raised and standardised from RM300 to RM500 per month, Mohd Sidek said the Government would look into the matter.
He said it involved substantial expenditure and the country needed an additional allocation of RM30bil under the 9th Malaysia Plan.
“The Government has to consider all aspects,” he added. – Bernama
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