BERITA BAIK SBPA

EVEN though the government has agreed to review the proposed Public Service New Remuneration Scheme   (SBPA) for civil servants, the topic is being debated openly and loudly.

If not for the intervention of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, the great majority of the 1.4 million civil servants would be in an uproar over what they see as a gross injustice to the dignity of their labour.

 They claim that a serious discrimination policy is about to be put in place.  In fact, the more vocal among them have singled out  Chief Secretary to the Government  Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan as being responsible for the  misdeed.

 Perhaps, they are being  too harsh on Sidek,  the No. 1 civil servant. They describe  the attempt to roll out the SBPA as a "grievous attempt to implement a very lopsided remuneration scheme".

They gave credit to the prime minister, whom they believe has done the right thing by asking for a full  review of the SBPA.

Mind you, Najib has made it clear that the SBPA is not about to be delayed or postponed. Rather, the scheme will be reviewed to correct the glaring salary scales, which appear to favour only a handful of civil servants.

Listen to senior clerk Hamdan (who was discussing the SBPA over nasi kandar with his colleagues): "Mana boleh macam ni! Kita orang bawahan pun kerja juga. Tak kan mereka yang duduk kat atas saja yang naik gaji beribu ringgit sedangkan kita dapat berapa sen aja!"

(How can this be! We in the lower grades also work hard.  It's not correct that the senior people get thousands of ringgit, while we get only crumbs.)

I thought Hamdan was exaggerating. But when I checked, what he said was indeed correct.

Under the proposed SBPA, certain categories of senior officers would enjoy a salary improvement of at least 50 per cent. This works out to an average of RM5,000 per month.

I also learned that the top government officers in the premier grades would get their salaries adjusted by between RM30,000 and RM60,000 a month.  No wonder the rank and file  are furious.

I thought they were over-reacting when they singled out Sidek as being responsible for this revision, one that further widens the salary gap between senior officers and the rank and file.

I've been covering industrial disputes and management-union relations since the 1980s, and I've yet to see such an imbalance in civil service salaries as the one proposed under the SBPA.

In the days when trade unions, such as those affiliated under the Congress of Unions of Employees in the Public and Civil Services (Cuepacs), were more vocal and, at times militant, such discrepancies would have met with open protests and some form of industrial action.

Nor, an elderly lady who was listening to her colleagues ranting about the proposed scheme, chipped in: "Kita tak boleh persalahkan ketua setiausaha negara  saja. Kita patut tanya ketua pengarah perkhidmatan awam juga. Dia yang pakar dalam hal gaji dan apa juga faedah yang kita patut dapat." (It's not correct to put all the blame on the chief secretary to the government. What about the director-general of the Public Service Department? He's the expert on  wages and schemes of service.)

An email on the matter questioned why only a handful of the 1.4 million government employees were targeted to enjoy such bounties. These people had their allowances lumped into their basic salaries as well.

Thus, when their pensions are calculated based on the last-drawn salary, they stand to enjoy fat monthly payments. And a few may even get lucrative offers as board members of companies.

The same email  said: "Fortunately, our PM had acted on this. We are banking on him to help find a solution for us. Thank you also to Cuepacs president Datuk Omar Osman for raising this matter.

"The PM is a fair person. I'm sure he will help us. In fact, by asking for the scheme to be reviewed, the PM has already started the process to correct this injustice."

The truth of the matter is simple. It's  important to the prime minister and  the ordinary civil servants that the grievances are resolved as soon as possible. This discord can have serious and far-reaching implications in more ways than one.

SBPA 50% 12 MAC 50% SELEPAS PRU 13?

Pengumuman penting PM mengenai SBPA pada 12 Mac

Tuntutan Gaji Cuepacs :
Gred   1 hingga 16  = kenaikan RM700
Gred 17 hingga 26  = kenaikan RM1000
Gred 27 hingga 40  = kenaikan RM1500
Gred 41 hingga 48  = kenaikan RM1800
Gred 52 hingga 54  = kenaikan RM2500apakah 50% akan ditunaikan pada 12 mac dan 50% lagi selepas pilihanraya tunggu, apa-apapun penjawat awam harus bersyukur pada Allah dan bertetima kasih pada pihak cuepac yang memperjuang  nasib penjawat awam, dan kesetiaan PM kita mendengar denyutan nadi penjawat awam.

RUMAH UNTUK SEMUA WARGA MALAYSIA

RUMAH 1 MALAYSIA

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MELAKA 24 Feb. – Kerajaan Barisan Nasional (BN) akan terus membela nasib golongan berpendapatan rendah dengan memastikan mereka mampu memiliki rumah menerusi dasar dan inisiatif yang dilaksanakan untuk tempoh lima tahun lagi, kata Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.
Perdana Menteri menegaskan, tiada kumpulan yang akan dipinggirkan dan kerajaan akan memastikan rakyat sentiasa mendapat manfaat melalui dasar yang memberi peluang kepada mereka memiliki atau menyewa rumah yang dibina oleh sektor awam dan swasta.
”Kerajaan berasa denyut nadi rakyat yang mahu memiliki rumah sendiri. Ini cita-cita yang semua orang mahu, tak kira siapa, mereka mahu suatu hari nanti dapat memiliki sebuah kediaman yang selesa.
”Inilah salah satu keutamaan di bawah kerajaan BN dan kita akan terus membina sebanyak rumah untuk rakyat miliki.
”Sebab itulah Dasar Perumahan Negara yang dilancarkan tahun lalu bertujuan memperkasakan lagi projek-projek perumahan awam dan swasta terutama sekali rumah yang mampu dimiliki oleh rakyat,” katanya ketika berucap pada majlis Penyerahan Surat Tawaran kepada 336 pembeli Pangsapuri Rakyat Sungai Putat, Batu Berendam di sini hari ini.
Turut hadir Menteri Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan, Datuk Seri Chor Chee Heung; Ketua Menteri, Datuk Seri Mohd. Ali Rustam dan Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Perumahan, Kerajaan Tempatan dan Alam Sekitar negeri, Datuk Md. Yunos Husin.
Pada majlis itu juga, beliau mengumumkan harga pangsapuri tersebut yang dijual RM35,000 seunit berbanding harga kos sebenarnya bernilai RM148,000 seunit.
Mengulas lanjut, Perdana Menteri berkata, sepanjang tempoh 2006 hingga 2010, sejumlah 110,000 unit perumahan awam mampu milik telah dapat dibina oleh kerajaan.
”Kita tambah lagi dengan Skim Rumah Pertamaku dengan setiap individu berusia 35 tahun ke bawah boleh mendapat pinjaman 100 peratus daripada institusi kewangan tanpa perlu wang pendahuluan,” katanya.
Justeru, kata Najib, kerajaan dalam proses mempergiatkan projek Perumahan Rakyat 1Malaysia (PR1MA) dan Rumah Mesra Rakyat (RMR) yang dibangunkan oleh Syarikat Perumahan Negara Berhad (SPNB) untuk diberikan kepada golongan sederhana dan berpendapatan rendah agar mereka memiliki rumah kediaman sendiri.
Menurutnya, kerajaan juga menyediakan subsidi sebagai sumbangan kepada rakyat supaya rumah yang ditawarkan oleh kerajaan adalah rendah berbanding harga pasaran sebenarnya.
Beliau berkata, sehingga 31 Disember tahun lalu, kerajaan telah menyiapkan sebanyak 65,246 buah rumah di seluruh negara dan sebagai tambahan, sebanyak 38,942 unit rumah Projek Perumahan Rakyat (PPR) akan dibina bagi tempoh Rancangan Malaysia Kesepuluh (RMK-10).
Mengenai projek terbengkalai pula, katanya, kerajaan memperuntukkan sebanyak RM63 juta bagi memulihkan 1,270 unit rumah terbengkalai di seluruh negara.
Katanya, sehingga 31 Disember tahun lalu, kerajaan dengan kerjasama semua pihak telah berjaya memulihkan sebanyak 83 projek daripada jumlah 167 projek perumahan yang diisytiharkan terbengkalai sejak 2009.
”Dengan pemulihan projek ini, seramai 9,278 pembeli telah mendapat manfaat,” katanya.

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