Sabah government to give increment to civil servants
KOTA KINABALU: The Sabah government will also implement the federal government announced salary increase of between 7.5 per cent and 35 per cent for its 25,737 civil servants from July 1. Sabah Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Aman said yesterday the exercise would involve an additional annual cost of RM90 million for the state government.
“If the salary increase for local authorities and statutory bodies is taken into account, it will involve an additional cost of RM109 million a year, meaning the state government will have to fork out a total of about RM700 million annually,” he told reporters after chairing a meeting of the state cabinet, here.
Musa also announced an increase in the monthly allowance for 3,526 state government grassroots employees, including local community leaders such as “ketua daerah”, “ketua anak negeri”, “wakil ketua anak negeri”, “ketua kampung” and “ketua masyarakat Cina”, effective July 1. With the raise, the allowances will be RM2,500 for “ketua daerah”, RM1,500 for “ketua anak negeri”, RM700 for “wakil ketua anak negeri and RM450 for “ketua kampung” and “ketua masyarakat Cina”. “For `ketua kampung’ and `ketua masyarakat Cina’, this is a huge increase of almost 100 per cent because they have thus far been paid about RM250 a month,” he said.
Musa said he was confident that the salary increase would spur economic growth as it would enhance the purchasing power of consumers. “However, I hope that civil servants will not become spendthrifts,” he said. Musa also announced the retirement of State Secretary Datuk KY Mustapha on July 2, saying that he would be succeeded by State Public Service Department Director Datuk Sukarti Wakiman.
Source : The Borneo Post
“If the salary increase for local authorities and statutory bodies is taken into account, it will involve an additional cost of RM109 million a year, meaning the state government will have to fork out a total of about RM700 million annually,” he told reporters after chairing a meeting of the state cabinet, here.
Musa also announced an increase in the monthly allowance for 3,526 state government grassroots employees, including local community leaders such as “ketua daerah”, “ketua anak negeri”, “wakil ketua anak negeri”, “ketua kampung” and “ketua masyarakat Cina”, effective July 1. With the raise, the allowances will be RM2,500 for “ketua daerah”, RM1,500 for “ketua anak negeri”, RM700 for “wakil ketua anak negeri and RM450 for “ketua kampung” and “ketua masyarakat Cina”. “For `ketua kampung’ and `ketua masyarakat Cina’, this is a huge increase of almost 100 per cent because they have thus far been paid about RM250 a month,” he said.
Musa said he was confident that the salary increase would spur economic growth as it would enhance the purchasing power of consumers. “However, I hope that civil servants will not become spendthrifts,” he said. Musa also announced the retirement of State Secretary Datuk KY Mustapha on July 2, saying that he would be succeeded by State Public Service Department Director Datuk Sukarti Wakiman.
Source : The Borneo Post
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