Come, spot the conspiracy in this
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Nov 24, 2008Civil service to cut pay* Half-month less year-end bonus for 2008
* Ministers' pay and MPs' allowance to be slashed
* Top civil servants' pay to be cut by 11 - 19%
Civil servants will still receive the 13th month payment, or Annual Wage Supplement of 1 month. -- ST PHOTO: JOYCE FANGTHE Civil Service will cut the pay of ministers and top officers by up to 19 per cent next year, and reduce the year-end bonus because of the weak Singapore economy and the worsening global financial crisis, the Public Service Division announced on Monday.The year-end Annual Variable Component (AVC) will be 0.5 month less, from one month last year. There will be no special Growth Bonus this year, unlike in 2007 when civil servants got a half-month payment.
But they will still get the 13th month payment, or Annual Wage Supplement, of one month, bringing the total AVC and 13th month payment for civil servants to two months plus $100 to $300 for this year.RELATED LINKSThis is one month less than the three months plus $220, including Growth Bonus, paid out in 2007.
The Government has also deferred the third phase of the salary adjustments for Administrative Officers, Political, Judicial and Statutory Appointment Holders which was due in January, said the PSD.
'In view of the clouded economic outlook and the likelihood that salaries will be lower next year, the Government has decided to defer the January 2009 salary adjustment,' said the PSD statement.
The January salary adjustment would have been the third of three salary adjustments, following two earlier rounds in April 2007 and January this year.
This group will have their pay cut by 11 to 19 per cent next year because of salary components which are linked to Singapore's economic growth.
This will bring their salaries below the April 2007 levels, said the PSD.
Bonus paid for the exceptional economic performance will also be cut in 2009 because a significant percentage of the pay for this group of civil servants - close to 25 per cent of their annual pay - comprises variable payments linked to the GDP growth of Singapore.
Specifically, there will be a 19 per cent fall in the annual salary of the President (to $3.14m) and the Prime Minister (to $3.04m) in 2009.
The Ministerial Grade (MR4) salary will fall by 18 per cent to $1.57m, and salaries at the entry Superscale grade (SR9) will fall by 12 per cent to $353,000.
The allowance for Members of Parliament will be trimmed by 16 per cent to $190,000.
Commenting on the salary drop, Mr Teo Chee Hean, Minister for Defence and Minister in charge of the Civil Service said: 'Public sector salaries follow the market up and down.
'The mechanism we introduced last year to link a significant proportion of the salary of senior civil servants to the performance of the economy is working as intended. This mechanism allows salaries to respond more rapidly to market conditions.'
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Right thing to do.
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In another forum, someone was complaining about the PMs salary.
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Originally posted by charlize:
In another forum, someone was complaining about the PMs salary.
Damn it... at least PM is still working lah.... look at the president's salary!!!.. cb.. just need to wayang nia....3M already... dun even need to show his prata skill.. knn.. -
come on, must shoot PAP more... must find a reason to curse them...
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Originally posted by I-like-flings(m):
Damn it... at least PM is still working lah.... look at the president's salary!!!.. cb.. just need to wayang nia....3M already... dun even need to show his prata skill.. knn..
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Originally posted by I-like-flings(m):
Damn it... at least PM is still working lah.... look at the president's salary!!!.. cb.. just need to wayang nia....3M already... dun even need to show his prata skill.. knn..you have no idea what is the duties and responsibilities of the president, do you?
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In the other forum, people remembered his pledge to freeze his salary.
And they have been busily calculating what could have been and what should have been.
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FINALLY... pay cut.... FINALLY...19% discount from a salary of over 6 digits?!!!
Not enough.... should deduct 50%.....
The 50% deduction... distribute to Singaporeans as shares.
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Originally posted by lianamaster:
FINALLY... pay cut.... FINALLY...19% discount from a salary of over 6 digits?!!!
Not enough.... should deduct 50%.....
The 50% deduction... distribute to Singaporeans as shares.
The cut for the ministers is not enough, they can afford to get lower. -
should have retrenched them for sucking up to americans n playing wif fire. bunch of lousy n incapable ministers!
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lucky no law against entraping...
come on, must shoot PAP more... must find a reason to curse them...
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Originally posted by skythewood:
you have no idea what is the duties and responsibilities of the president, do you?
well...... it cant be harder than the president of the united states right??? -
somebody has chronic anal puritis.
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Originally posted by 798:
should have retrenched them for sucking up to americans n playing wif fire. bunch of lousy n incapable ministers!
1st get rid of the lee hsien loong. The highest paid PM but incompetent. -
Wait wait wait skythewood, lemme try something that you tried in another thread, dis, dis, dis dishourable, and whats that word for it, des, des despots. Oh yeah, Siliporeans!
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IB?
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Hmm.. let me see.
In 2007, our minister's pay increased by a whooping 60% as the first installment of their pay increment kicks in.
In 2008, the second installment saw a second increase of 21%.
Now, they are cutting 19%?
This is like increasing our electrical bills by 21% and then come January, they say they will reduce it by 7% even though oil has fallen pass US$50.
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This gesture will see the national debt go down quite a bit only. Their salaries after the cut are still way above civil servants and ministers in other first world countries.. Shouldn't have raise their salaries in the first place.
A bunch of first world idiots.
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Originally posted by googoomuck:
This gesture will see the national debt go down quite a bit only. Their salaries after the cut are still way above civil servants and ministers in other first world countries.. Shouldn't have raise their salaries in the first place.
A bunch of first world idiots.
I really couldn't agree with you more.
Uh.. dishonourable despots? (Not far from the truth, i say.. what?)
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yup, that's what i am talking about. even if PAP does something that can't be seen as bad, or something percieved as good, this forum has the ability to make them look like evil bastards.
I call it the peer pressure PAP perception, PPPP.
PAP will probably need to cure cancer or bring about world peace to get a thumbs up.
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Originally posted by skythewood:
yup, that's what i am talking about. even if PAP does something that can't be seen as bad, or something percieved as good, this forum has the ability to make them look like evil bastards.
I call it the peer pressure PAP perception, PPPP.
PAP will probably need to cure cancer or bring about world peace to get a thumbs up.
But you can't disagree with the fact posted by fellow forumer above right?
In 2007, our minister's pay increased by a whooping 60% as the first installment of their pay increment kicks in.
In 2008, the second installment saw a second increase of 21%.
Now, they are cutting 19%?
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Originally posted by eagle:
But you can't disagree with the fact posted by fellow forumer above right?
posting facts is nothing wrong.
but it could have been 10% cut, 5% cut...
if they announce 30% cut, the same comments will happen.
PPPP always applies.
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Originally posted by skythewood:
posting facts is nothing wrong.
but it could have been 10% cut, 5% cut...
if they announce 30% cut, the same comments will happen.
PPPP always applies.
They are still talking about the same loop mah
Take away 70%, give you back 19%
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Originally posted by eagle:
They are still talking about the same loop mah
Take away 70%, give you back 19%
Repeat the above.what 70%?
