Finance Minister to convene pay board despite professed reluctance to cut wages
27 May 2012, 6:15 PM
Daniel Bosley
Minister of Finance and Treasury Abdullah Jihad said today he would avoid cutting the salaries of civil servants in order to tackle the budget deficit which has spiralled to 27 percent of GDP.
He told Minivan News that he would seek to make savings in other areas of expenditure first.
“Civil servants are the lowest down of all government employees. We will try to cut all non-wage expenditure by 15 percent. Salaries will be considered after this,” said Jihad.
The minister’s comments today came after local newspaper Haveeru reported him as having said on Friday that the government was to review the pay of all state employees.
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