Signs of uprising against pro-coalition government in Taiz monitored

TAIZ, Oct. 10 (YPA) – The “Coordination Council of Trade Unions and Civil Society Organizations” called on the government loyal to the Saudi-led coalition to pay the salaries of employees of the local and central authorities, including the displaced, and to implement settlements according to qualifications and years of service suspended since 2012.

The council stressed in a statement issued Wednesday the importance of paying “the allowances of work, rural, and the cost of living to those entitled to them” and implementing the rest of the stages of the Wages and Salaries Law No. 43  of 2005.

The statement said that “salaries no longer cover the necessary needs of employees and workers and their families, and yet they are being paid in a manner that includes a kind of stubbornness, procrastination, and indifference by the government.”

It stressed the need to increase the minimum wage in accordance with the law and to reconsider the value of the grades in the wage and salary scale so that the minimum salary is equivalent to 100 US dollars, indicating that the cost of living allowance should be paid urgently in line with the large and escalating rise in the prices of essential goods and to stop the continuous deterioration of the local currency.

YPA