On Thursday, the Iraqi Parliament’s Finance Committee made it clear that it would be working on a special plan to unify the employee salary scale, estimating that its implementation would cost 10 trillion dinars.
Advisory group part, Moeen Al-Kadhimi, cleared up for that the Parliamentary Money Council had recently facilitated the public authority panel worried about the record of binding together the compensation size of state representatives, and that it is attempting to track down the essential monetary liquidity to accomplish this unification.
He went on to say that there are more than 4 million employees and that bringing their salaries together will cost nearly 10 trillion dinars, which means that money needs to be allocated and the salary scale needs to be changed.
Al-Kadhimi brought up that the Board of Clergymen is the body worried about revising the compensation scale by supporting an exceptional regulation on pay rates or the common help regulation and sending it to the Place of Delegates.
Due to what they perceive as “injustice and unfairness” in comparison to their peers in other ministries, who are granted much higher allowances, approximately 70% of Iraqi employees—an estimated five million employees—are demanding an adjustment in the salary scale. If the employees’ rights have not been protected since 2008, they have threatened to continue their demonstrations.
A number of governorates and the capital, Baghdad, saw periodic demonstrations calling for a change to the salary scale. Thousands of employees took to the streets and marched to the Green Zone in the center of the capital, where they demanded a change to the salary scale because of the high annual inflation rate.
Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani emphasizes the need to “reach a formula that achieves justice” in his description of the salary scale amendment file as a “sensitive issue.”
