General Administration Employees: Total Closure Next Week

The "General Administration Employees" gathering has called on all employees to conduct a total closure next week starting from Monday, January 29, 2024. The statement read: "Since the Prime Minister has repeatedly talked about justice and fairness among sectors of the public workforce, and since the government has deprived General Administration employees of increases granted to other public service workers that start from $300 and exceed $1,000, and since fairness requires a balance between benefits and imposed burdens, and given that the General Administration is subjected to new conditions unknown in the history of the public sector, and even more stringent than those in other sectors, and since the General Administration is the fundamental pillar upon which the state relies for revenue collection, and in rejection of leaks through the media regarding a reduction in the size of the increase from what was proposed in the draft decree, and in rejection of the lack of equality between the General Administration and other sectors with similar conditions that benefit from productivity allowances and other compensations, which have reached entitlements of at least $600, and in rejection of the General Administration being a scapegoat for anyone, and in rejection of the evident goal of some to exclusively deprive General Administration employees, and in refusal to repeat past events where the General Administration bore the burden alone, as happened with the delay of the series of administration employees for several years, the General Administration Employees gathering calls on all employees to conduct a total closure next week starting from Monday, January 29, 2024, to ensure that unjust solutions are not invented for the employees and to support anyone negotiating on behalf of General Administration employees." The gathering wishes for employees to commit to the total closure, to preserve their dignity firstly and their rights secondly, to prevent the distinction between other sectors and the General Administration from becoming an acquired right. The gathering also confirmed that "these solutions must be temporary until a unified and fair salary scale project is achieved among all sectors in the public domain by withdrawing all special assistance and allowances, ensuring that the minimum in the public sector is not less than $600, while reassessing contributions to the mutual aid funds and special measures for some sectors that have burdened the state treasury in addition to creating significant disparities among public sector workers." The gathering called for a return to applicable laws and regulations and their amendment to ensure justice among all sectors.