Parliamentary Finance: The government will “waste” one month’s salary and does not intend to send the 2021 budget
Parliamentary Finance: The government will “waste” one month’s salary and does not intend to send the 2021 budget
2020-11-08
On Sunday, the Parliamentary Finance Committee warned the government against losing a full month of salaries for state employees due to delay in payment, indicating that the government does not intend to pay the 2021 budget before next March.
Committee member Hoshyar Abdullah said in a press statement that “constantly delaying the payment of salaries will lead to the loss of one month’s salary, as happened in the Kurdistan region.”
Abdullah added, “The work of the current government does not rise to the level of making sacrifices and popular demonstrations that called for reform and achieving justice for the corrupt.”
He pointed out that “the draft borrowing law stipulates the need to provide salaries for the next month of March, meaning that the government does not intend at all to pay the draft budget for 2021 before this date.”
Thousands of employees in Baghdad and a number of governorates began a strike today, Sunday, due to the delay in paying employees’ salaries for the second consecutive month.
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