| Should the local governments raise the civil servants' salaries? | |
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| Dec 3, 2008 00:51 |   |
 | Some reports say that some local governments in China are going to raise the civil servants' salaries. This has stired a heated discussion. Most people oppose to raise the civil servants' salaries. Right now, many companies and enterprises begin to cut their staffs' salaries due to the financial crisis. However, those civil servants haven't been affected. On contrary, their salaries will be increased. No wonder the ordinary people are dissatisfied when hearing the news. What do you think? Should the civil servants' salaries be raised? Le'ts see what the Singaporean government do to cope with the financial crisis. Singapore decides to decrease their civil servants' salaries due to the financial crisis. From next year, their salaries will be cut by 19 percent. Maybe, China should learn from Singapore. |
| Dec 3, 2008 05:44 | #1 |
| I think that the government should triple civil servants salaries. And then, when these same well paid civil servants are caught with their hands in the cookie jar, the government should not imprison them, but instead send their children to jail. And, in the case of those without children, their parents. That should clean up the rampant corruption pretty fast, don't you think? |
| Dec 3, 2008 19:37 | #2 |
| Too greedy. Compared with others, they have more stable jobs and good salaries. What else do they want? Why does the government still want to raise their salaries? The government should learn from Singapore---reducing the civil servants' salaries. And the ordinary people's salaries should be raised. |
| Dec 4, 2008 20:14 | #3 |
| The public pay wages to the civil servants. Now the civil servants' wages are said to be raised. However, the public, those who support them, lose their jobs due to the financial crisis. Is this fair? Katrina is right. The public's wages should be raised instead of the civil servants. |
| Dec 8, 2008 20:00 | #4 |
| Just have a look: In China,19 persons support a civil servant. In America, 94 persons support one. If their wages increase, we might need to pay more taxes to support them. Impossible! The government should cut their salaries to subsidize us. |
| Dec 9, 2008 20:01 | #5 |
| In Malaysia, public service enjoys good salary too as well as private sectors. Formerly, many people are vying for the posts in private sectors but now, most of the graduates are scrambling for public sector for better income and security. For the public sectors we have Congress of Unions of Employees in the Public and Civil Services (CUEPACS) and Trade Union Congresses for the private sectors, as well as Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) that provide suggestions to the government,from time to time. Passport can be collected within 2 hours after application, from its previous 1-2 days, Identity Card can be collected within one day instead of 15 days to one month. Application can be done at any immigration office in the country (for passport application) and no need to go back to hometown as in China. This, I think is a good delivery system by the government and compensates with good salary (I am sure with good delivery system by the public service, there will be less grouses and complaints from the public). Wan |
| Dec 10, 2008 05:13 | #6 |
| It wasn’t that long ago that public servants in China were paid a salary that they couldn’t live on. They were tacitly expected to make something “on the side” To being able to export goods through Customs or have your child accepted into some schools, people pay. It still continues. If you were the Head Master of one of these schools and 10 sets of parents approached you, offering up to 100,000 RMB to place their child, would you take the money? Or if you were a Public Servant and some businessman laid a credit card on the table and said you can spend 10,000 a month would you knock it back? Most of us here will never be in that position to be able to have to make a moral choice. But in all honesty, I would seriously give it some thought. The theory behind the raising of salaries is to eliminate corruption. But who seriously is going to blow the whistle on them? Would you put your career on the line? Dodger. |
| Dec 10, 2008 19:28 | #7 |
| The theory behind the raising of salaries is to eliminate corruption. I don't think that high salaries can eliminate corruption. The civil servants' basic salaries are not very high, but they enjoy too many welfare benefits. People are toooo greedy. The government plans to raise those civil servants' salaries to prevent corruption. However, those civil servants just think that the increase is too small. Taking bribes is a more convenient way to accumulate wealth. |
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