{"id":1154,"date":"2017-10-05T07:27:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/cuepacs-hopeful-of-goodies-from-budget-2018\/"},"modified":"2017-10-05T07:27:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T23:27:00","slug":"cuepacs-hopeful-of-goodies-from-budget-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/cuepacs-hopeful-of-goodies-from-budget-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"CUEPACS HOPEFUL OF GOODIES FROM BUDGET 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left\">\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">NST<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-meta\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"> <span class=\"author\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nst.com.my\/authors\/alia-mior\">ALIA MIOR<\/a><\/span><span class=\"separator\"> &#8211; <\/span><\/span><span class=\"post-date\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">October 4, 2017 @ 9:47pm<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\" style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">KUALA  LUMPUR: The Congress of Unions of Employees in the Public and Civil  Services (Cuepacs) is grateful that the government has indicated some  \u201cgood news\u201d for the civil servants in the 2018 Budget.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">  Cuepacs president Datuk Azih Muda said the possibility of \u201cgood news\u201d as  hinted by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak in the next national  budget had brought more optimism for the government <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-vV0oFvWGaRE\/WdVuc4zVOXI\/AAAAAAAACKw\/zRNi_Yg5zYwnV6w71vc58pGgwOqHAqyywCLcBGAs\/s1600\/AZIH_MUDA_04.jpg_1507124862.jpg\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"https:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-vV0oFvWGaRE\/WdVuc4zVOXI\/AAAAAAAACKw\/zRNi_Yg5zYwnV6w71vc58pGgwOqHAqyywCLcBGAs\/s320\/AZIH_MUDA_04.jpg_1507124862.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">servants about their  future.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"> \u201cOur wishlist for 2018 Budget includes a proposal to increase the service allowances (for employees in the low-pay brackets).<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"> \u201cThe last review on this was in 2002. The amount does not match with the needs of current economic situation.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"> \u201cWe ask the government to consider increasing the allowance from a  minimum of RM95 to RM180,\u201d he told the New Straits Times today.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"> Azih said an improvement in the quantum of allowance in the upcoming  Budget would augur well for the civil servants as living cost was high  now.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"> He also said Cuepacs was hopeful that the government  would introduce two salary increments annually regardless of the  positions of the employees.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"> \u201cWhile bonuses and increments are helpful, what benefits us more is a lower cost of living.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"> \u201cWe are sure that the government understands the people\u2019s needs. We  also ask the government to develop better public transport system such  as providing rebates on the fare structure.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"> \u201cI only ask  this because typically when civil servants get any pay rise, the extra  money is spent on toll fees and fuel among many other daily needs.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"> Azih lauded the efforts by the government to continue giving certain incentives to the civil servants.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NST By ALIA MIOR &#8211; October 4, 2017 @ 9:47pm KUALA LUMPUR: The Congress of Unions of Employees in the Public and Civil Services (Cuepacs) is grateful that the government has indicated some \u201cgood news\u201d for the civil servants in the 2018 Budget. Cuepacs president Datuk Azih Muda said the possibility of \u201cgood news\u201d as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dari-cuepacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}