{"id":343,"date":"2015-04-15T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/cuepacs-govt-needs-to-review-wages-for-civil-servants\/"},"modified":"2015-04-15T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T19:22:00","slug":"cuepacs-govt-needs-to-review-wages-for-civil-servants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/cuepacs-govt-needs-to-review-wages-for-civil-servants\/","title":{"rendered":"CUEPACS: GOVT NEEDS TO REVIEW WAGES FOR CIVIL SERVANTS"},"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\">The SundayDaily<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"node-header-wrapper\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">    <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"submitted\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">      Posted on 15 April 2015 &#8211; 05:02pm<br \/><em>Last updated on 15 April 2015 &#8211; 05:33pm<\/em><\/span><\/span>              <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-byline\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><strong>Lee Choon Fai<br \/><a href=\"mailto:newsdesk@thesundaily.com\">newsdesk@thesundaily.com<\/a><br \/> <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">     <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"social-sharing-tools\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">      <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"sharethis\">        <span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><span class=\"st_email_custom\"><\/span>        <span class=\"st_googleplus_custom\"><\/span>        <span class=\"st_twitter_custom\"><\/span>        <span class=\"st_facebook_custom\"><\/span>        <span class=\"st_sharethis_custom\"><\/span><\/span><\/span>               <\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">       <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"print-html\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small\">        <\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span>      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">                                                                                <\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><strong>KUALA LUMPUR<\/strong>: It has been 13 years and the  government has yet to review the wages for civil servants, said Public  and Civil Services Employees&#8217; Union Congress (Cuepacs).<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">Its president Datuk Azih Muda said the government needs to review the  wages as civil servants are unable to support themselves under the  current pay scheme.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">&#8220;The government is supposed to have periodic reviews every five years  but have not done so in the past 13 years. Even the basic wages need to  be raised to at least RM1,200,&#8221; he said at a Cuepacs gathering at the  CIDB Convention Centre here today.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">He said the current basic pay of RM850, not including various  benefits and allowances, at the lowest level of civil service is below  the government&#8217;s mandated poverty line of RM880.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">Coupled with current economic uncertainty along with the  implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), he said, most low  level civil servants who work on the front lines have to take up second  jobs to support themselves and their families.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">&#8220;How many among us here have to work night jobs to support ourselves  and our families by driving taxis, serving tables in restaurants and  doing other menial jobs just to make a living?&#8221; Azih asked at the  Cuepacs gathering.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">He said it is unthinkable that civil servants have to live with a  basic wage below the poverty line when urbanites who earn less than  RM3,000 a month are barely scraping by.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">Azih said this is especially evident in housing, where low level  civil servants, which make up 70% of the civil service, cannot afford a  decent house due to inflated prices and often had to live with another  civil servant&#8217;s family under the same roof.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">&#8220;We could only look at housing developments springing up all over the  place while we cannot afford the houses ourselves,&#8221; he said to roars of  approval from those present.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">Azih hopes the government will review the 252 salary schemes and  allowances before Labour Day on May 1, and set the enforcement date as  Jan 1, 2015 so civil servants can get the increase for the entire 2015.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">He added that Cuepacs fully supports the leadership of Prime Minister  Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak but merely wants promises to be kept and  that the welfare of the civil service taken care of<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/cuepacs.blogspot.com\/2015\/04\/cuepacs-govt-needs-to-review-wages-for.html'>baca selanjutnya&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SundayDaily Posted on 15 April 2015 &#8211; 05:02pmLast updated on 15 April 2015 &#8211; 05:33pm Lee Choon Fainewsdesk@thesundaily.com KUALA LUMPUR: It has been 13 years and the government has yet to review the wages for civil servants, said Public and Civil Services Employees&#8217; Union Congress (Cuepacs). 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