NewsWhore
07-30-2012, 02:40 PM
Juan Bolivar Diaz writes in Hoy on Sunday that the bill that would set a cap to public salaries in order to impose austerity on the government has been distorted in Congress. He alerts that what has come forth is a bill that orders increases in wages of higher paid government officers practically across the board, contradictorily accentuating the inequities that many have been criticizing in government.
As Diaz observers, the bill as passed in the Senate would authorize a general increase in wages in the short term.
Diaz said that the changes incorporated in the bill ignored the work of years of the Ministry of Public Administration, that included costly advisors from abroad and many consultations.
Interestingly, he points out that if the bill is approved as okayed by the Senate, Dominican ministers would make US$2,000 more than their equals in Spain.
Economist Nelson Suarez pointed out that the Dominican central government wages have increased from RD$28.8 billion in 2004 at the change of government to RD$80.18 billion after the eight years of Fernandez administration. The Fernandez administration is signaled out as the one with the most wasteful spending in the World Economic Forum's Competitiveness Report.
An editorial in Diario Libre today concludes that in order to please others, the senators ended up pleasing themselves (with the increases in wages). The senators make less than many deputies and the bill would also correct this situation.
It had been said that President Fernandez would extend the present legislation in order to give time to pass the bill before the change of government. Legislators reformed the bill so that many of the government entities that already receive the higher salareis be exempt, including the Central Bank, superintendencies of Insurance and Banks, the Banco de Reservas, Department of Taxes and Department of Customs.
News commentators say that as the bill was reformed from the original project it would now worsen the situation it sought to correct.
http://www.hoy.com.do/tema-de-hoy/2012/7/28/439126/En-vez-de-regulacion-van-a-subir-los-sueldos
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As Diaz observers, the bill as passed in the Senate would authorize a general increase in wages in the short term.
Diaz said that the changes incorporated in the bill ignored the work of years of the Ministry of Public Administration, that included costly advisors from abroad and many consultations.
Interestingly, he points out that if the bill is approved as okayed by the Senate, Dominican ministers would make US$2,000 more than their equals in Spain.
Economist Nelson Suarez pointed out that the Dominican central government wages have increased from RD$28.8 billion in 2004 at the change of government to RD$80.18 billion after the eight years of Fernandez administration. The Fernandez administration is signaled out as the one with the most wasteful spending in the World Economic Forum's Competitiveness Report.
An editorial in Diario Libre today concludes that in order to please others, the senators ended up pleasing themselves (with the increases in wages). The senators make less than many deputies and the bill would also correct this situation.
It had been said that President Fernandez would extend the present legislation in order to give time to pass the bill before the change of government. Legislators reformed the bill so that many of the government entities that already receive the higher salareis be exempt, including the Central Bank, superintendencies of Insurance and Banks, the Banco de Reservas, Department of Taxes and Department of Customs.
News commentators say that as the bill was reformed from the original project it would now worsen the situation it sought to correct.
http://www.hoy.com.do/tema-de-hoy/2012/7/28/439126/En-vez-de-regulacion-van-a-subir-los-sueldos
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#4)