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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Hi, sorry for diverting, but can we go back to the main topic and focus about "civil service" (not public service) salary?
So how much increment did everyone get for the coming revision? Any news for the rest of the service (besides MX)?
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PSD to review salaries of public officers - Channel NewsAsia
SINGAPORE: The Public Service Division will carry out a review of the salaries of Administrative Service officers, the Judiciary and Statutory Appointment Holders.
Minister-in-charge of the Civil Service Teo Chee Hean announced this in Parliament during the Committee of Supply Debate for the Prime Minister's Office.
This comes on the heels of a pay review for political holders that was adopted by the government earlier this year.
Public officers were not subject to the same review as it was deemed that unlike political holders, they are not elected and they pursue professional careers.
The committee tasked with reviewing the salaries had therefore said that public officers "should not be subject to the same degree of sacrifice as political appointment holders".
Mr Teo, who's also Deputy Prime Minister, said the government agrees with this. Its policy is to pay "competitive salaries that follow, but not lead the market".
He said the pay review for public officers will ensure that the Public Service can continue to "get a steady flow of able and committed people to helm and staff key appointments".
The review is expected to be completed and ready for implementation in six to nine months.
Work is already underway to raise the salaries of low-income employees within the Public Service.
These workers, who are in Division 4, are mostly in operations support. They saw a pay rise of about 5 per cent in February. This benefited some 2,300 officers.
Separately, in an update of the re-employment of older workers within the Public Service, Mr Teo said 385 or 74 percent of those who retired were re-employed in the first half of 2011.
In the second half of the year, when guidelines took effect, 448 officers or 81 percent of retired workers were re-employed - a jump of 7 percentage points.
From April this year, Mr Teo said the Public Service will also re-employ all eligible Division 4 officers, at their last drawn salaries, at the point of retirement. This will benefit some 590 officers retiring from 2012 to 2015.
- CNA/de