{"id":488,"date":"2015-07-08T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/?p=488"},"modified":"2015-07-08T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T13:30:00","slug":"pay-cut-initiative-is-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/pay-cut-initiative-is-good\/","title":{"rendered":"PAY CUT INITIATIVE IS GOOD"},"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 Star Online<br \/>8\/7\/2015<\/span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"story\" style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">PETALING JAYA: Efforts to recoup outstanding loans  from National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN) borrowers via  pay deduction is a move in the right direction.\u201cIt is better  than disciplinary action,\u201d said Congress of Unions of Employees in the  Public and Civil Services (Cuepacs) president Datuk Azih Muda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">He said disciplinary action would not be good on the records for a civil servant loan borrower.Azih,  who lauded the move that will start with Public Service Department  (PSD) officers this September, said pay deductions would also help the  borrowers to become debt-free.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"inlineAd\" id=\"content_1_inlineAd\" style=\"float: left;width: 100%\">\n<div id=\"inlineAd1\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1392882089877-0\" style=\"width: 600px\"> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">On Monday, it was announced that PSD officers will be the first  batch to go through mandatory pay deductions \u2013 to set a leading example  to other government agencies.PSD director-general Tan Sri  Mohamed Zabidi Zainal said 480 of his officers would be subjected to the  pay cuts when the initiative kicks off in September.Mohamed  Zabidi will meet with the secretaries-general of all the ministries on  Friday to discuss the mandatory pay cut initiative for other borrowers  within the civil service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">When asked if the deduction would be  burdensome to the civil servants who were already facing the high cost  of living in the city, Azih was steadfast, saying \u201ca loan must be  repaid\u201d. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif\">\u201cWhether we are doing well or not, we are obligated to pay back a loan that we\u2019ve taken,\u201d he said.\u201cSettle the loan, then plan for other things.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/cuepacs.blogspot.com\/2015\/07\/pay-cut-initiative-is-good.html'>baca selanjutnya>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Star Online8\/7\/2015 PETALING JAYA: Efforts to recoup outstanding loans from National Higher Education Fund Corporation (PTPTN) borrowers via pay deduction is a move in the right direction.\u201cIt is better than disciplinary action,\u201d said Congress of Unions of Employees in the Public and Civil Services (Cuepacs) president Datuk Azih Muda. He said disciplinary action would [&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-488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dari-cuepacs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","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=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persatuan.utm.my\/kkautm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}