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Saturday, March 3, 2012
BAGHDAD - Naseer Goldfinch
Industrial experts expressed the Iraqi government objected to the way the government deals with the issue of staff salaries not exceeding $ 400 per month, They pointed out that the national experiences leave the country with the receipt of offers and temptations from the outside. The engineer Technical Haidar Jaafar said in a statement to «life» «government treats us vaguely, Sometimes to keep him a three-class system, and sometimes turned to the career ladder but very low salaries».
Ziad Al-Shammari a specialist in the field of mining confirms that he was forced to leave his government since 1995 and went to Germany to work, explaining that his salary is set in hours and output per hour than $ 15. He continues, «decision to expatriate staff to their constituencies encouraged me to return to Baghdad and really decided me back but the salary does not exceed 600 thousand dinars (500 dollars), and therefore decided to take a long vacation without salary and return to Germany until the situation improves functional in my country».
A heavy burden
Some manufacturing companies dissolved the military, which integrated the various ministries, constitute a heavy burden on the Iraqi budget being drained annually more than 11 trillion Iraqi dinars (about ten billion dollars) for the salaries of its employees.
Jafar and saw that the government thinking about how to pay 11.98 trillion dinars yearly salaries of public companies in addition to manufacturing companies dissolved the military. And industrial companies experiencing poor ability to compete with imported products, which dominates the market in the absence of laws that protect the local industry.
Managing Director for «Electronic Industries» Abdalraf Ureybi Ahmed explained that his company was founded in 1973 with a capital of one million Iraqi dinars, equivalent to three million dollars then, to begin in the production of electrical appliances.
He continues, «capital of the company doubled Finally after adding the government five million dollars to diversify the products, but our labs the six and the number of associates who over 740 between the experts and technicians and workers, is the only obstacle to the achievement of profits, most companies suffer inflation in labor».
Regarding the decision of the Iraqi government to promote local products and the size to take advantage of these decisions, he said, «so far have not touched any of our products to encourage the public sector nor the private foreign companies competed and we need to state support, materially and morally and tax». He summarized the problems in the company they relate to self-funding, as the decline in sales means non-payment of salaries to employees, as well as a lot of laws that do not serve the interest of work.
Minimum of ambition
He adds: «We still lost, we are not a company in the private sector to act and we are not a public sector company of the state, and the current salary rates close to the salary scale state, but a minimum of ambition».
As a member of the parliamentary economic committee Albjara Nora, she noted that the rates of low income is one of the most common reasons that feed the building Iraqi reluctance to return to the country, compared to Atkadouna abroad.
She «the state has spent vast sums during the seventies and eighties for the training of Iraqi personnel in developed countries, and this so-called human development of art, but unfortunately the majority of these competencies preferred migration after the temptations and received offers from other countries».
It pointed out that the Iraqi parliament managed through the adoption of the current year budget, to add clauses to adjust the salaries of state employees, noting that this must be accompanied by studies to reduce the problems of inflation and higher rates of national income.
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Saturday, March 3, 2012
BAGHDAD - Naseer Goldfinch
Industrial experts expressed the Iraqi government objected to the way the government deals with the issue of staff salaries not exceeding $ 400 per month, They pointed out that the national experiences leave the country with the receipt of offers and temptations from the outside. The engineer Technical Haidar Jaafar said in a statement to «life» «government treats us vaguely, Sometimes to keep him a three-class system, and sometimes turned to the career ladder but very low salaries».
Ziad Al-Shammari a specialist in the field of mining confirms that he was forced to leave his government since 1995 and went to Germany to work, explaining that his salary is set in hours and output per hour than $ 15. He continues, «decision to expatriate staff to their constituencies encouraged me to return to Baghdad and really decided me back but the salary does not exceed 600 thousand dinars (500 dollars), and therefore decided to take a long vacation without salary and return to Germany until the situation improves functional in my country».
A heavy burden
Some manufacturing companies dissolved the military, which integrated the various ministries, constitute a heavy burden on the Iraqi budget being drained annually more than 11 trillion Iraqi dinars (about ten billion dollars) for the salaries of its employees.
Jafar and saw that the government thinking about how to pay 11.98 trillion dinars yearly salaries of public companies in addition to manufacturing companies dissolved the military. And industrial companies experiencing poor ability to compete with imported products, which dominates the market in the absence of laws that protect the local industry.
Managing Director for «Electronic Industries» Abdalraf Ureybi Ahmed explained that his company was founded in 1973 with a capital of one million Iraqi dinars, equivalent to three million dollars then, to begin in the production of electrical appliances.
He continues, «capital of the company doubled Finally after adding the government five million dollars to diversify the products, but our labs the six and the number of associates who over 740 between the experts and technicians and workers, is the only obstacle to the achievement of profits, most companies suffer inflation in labor».
Regarding the decision of the Iraqi government to promote local products and the size to take advantage of these decisions, he said, «so far have not touched any of our products to encourage the public sector nor the private foreign companies competed and we need to state support, materially and morally and tax». He summarized the problems in the company they relate to self-funding, as the decline in sales means non-payment of salaries to employees, as well as a lot of laws that do not serve the interest of work.
Minimum of ambition
He adds: «We still lost, we are not a company in the private sector to act and we are not a public sector company of the state, and the current salary rates close to the salary scale state, but a minimum of ambition».
As a member of the parliamentary economic committee Albjara Nora, she noted that the rates of low income is one of the most common reasons that feed the building Iraqi reluctance to return to the country, compared to Atkadouna abroad.
She «the state has spent vast sums during the seventies and eighties for the training of Iraqi personnel in developed countries, and this so-called human development of art, but unfortunately the majority of these competencies preferred migration after the temptations and received offers from other countries».
It pointed out that the Iraqi parliament managed through the adoption of the current year budget, to add clauses to adjust the salaries of state employees, noting that this must be accompanied by studies to reduce the problems of inflation and higher rates of national income.
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