THE Congress of Unions of Employees in the Public and Civil Services (Cuepacs) said it hopes the cabinet can immediately approve its proposal to form a task force to review the public service salary scheme.

Cuepacs president Adnan Mat in a statement today said he hopes the task force will not be given a long deadline to provide its findings to ensure the results are relevant to the rapidly changing economic environment, which causes changes to the cost of living. 

“Cuepacs is ready to cooperate with this task force to provide a proper workers’ point of view. It is to ensure the recommendations to be submitted later are accepted by civil servants, who are the beneficiaries,” he said. 

Yesterday, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said the cabinet will review the public service salary scheme nationwide next week. 

Adnan said Cuepacs proposed an RM180 annual salary increment, the first time-based promotion to be shortened to 10 years, the second time-based promotion to be reduced to eight years, and for the minimum civil service tier to start at Grade 19.

Cuepacs suggested raising the grade for administrative assistants and financial administrative assistants to Grade 29, increasing their living allowance and their fixed housing allowance to RM450, and introducing a city allowance of RM500, among others, he said. – Bernama, July 8, 2023.