{"id":19610,"date":"2023-11-04T04:00:43","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T04:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onecitizendaily.com\/?p=19610"},"modified":"2023-11-04T11:55:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T11:55:52","slug":"mps-ministers-omitted-in-new-salary-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/04\/mps-ministers-omitted-in-new-salary-scale\/","title":{"rendered":"Salary increment skips MPs, ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Bida Elly David<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning has suspended payment of constitutional post-holders and legislators in the adjusted salary structure.<\/p>\n<p>Government&#8217;s spokesperson, Michael Makuei, said that the new salary structure does not apply to constitutional potholders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is worth mentioning that the new salary structures are not for public servants, it is only for civil servants,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the information minister, the National Emolument Act has to be enacted first in order to address benefits of the constitutional post holders.<\/p>\n<p>Makuei said constitutional post holders and the lawmakers bear different payrolls, distinct from the ones of civil servants.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the salary scale for minister and legislators is still on the old scale determined by the National Emolument Act which is yet to be amended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnless the emolument act is amended, this will be when their salaries will be adjusted accordingly,\u201d Makuei added.<\/p>\n<p>He said they are in the process of amending the national emolument act for the constitutional post holders and the legislators.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the former Minister of Finance and Planning, Agak Achuil presented the emolument statute for the fiscal year 2021\/2022 to the Transitional National Legislative Assembly for review.<\/p>\n<p>The emolument statute has not been reviewed since its enactment when\u00a0South Sudan was\u00a0declared independent\u00a0in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bida Elly David &nbsp; Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning has suspended payment of constitutional post-holders and legislators in the adjusted salary structure. Government&#8217;s spokesperson, Michael Makuei, said that the new salary structure does not apply to constitutional potholders. \u201cIt is worth mentioning that the new salary structures are<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/04\/mps-ministers-omitted-in-new-salary-scale\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/Michael-Makuei-Lueth-Minister-of-Information-Photo-by-Bida-Elly.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19610"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19621,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19610\/revisions\/19621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}