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10-17-2006, 02:30 PM
The National Ethics Commission has banned officials and public employees from receiving Christmas gifts and recommended that all institutions, including City Halls, avoid spending public resources by refraining from the traditional practice of giving away expensive baskets this year. The Commission said that only baskets meant as gifts for poorer employees are acceptable and these should not be sent to ministers, deputy ministers, administrators and assistant administrators of state institutions. According to the resolution, accepting such gifts could be seen as an outlet for abnormal activity or favoritism in the workplace. Commission president Jose Joaquin Bido Medina said that these baskets are given to people with medium ranged salaries and that government officials get enough money and don't need any more. A report in Diario Libre says that these funds should be saved and allocated to the relief of the sick and the needy.
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