In a statement to Tabadul, the dean of economics faculty at Al-Mergib University, Mahmoud Al-Mahjoub, confirmed that reducing the salaries of the Presidential Council, ministers and agents by 40% is a good initiative counted for the Council, though belated.
Al-Mahjoub said that, as the country needs all its financial resources in this period, there are some unnecessary expenses that concern the second and third parts.
On the other hand, he emphasized the necessity of urgently issuing and approving a state salary scale that simulates social justice.
In this regard Al-Mahjoub recalled the initiative they had taken at the university since about a year, during which they prepared a salary scale and discussed it in the presence of the Minister of Education, the Minister of Labor as well as the Minister of Finance, but to no avail.
As far as the issue of employment in the public sector is concerned, and With regard to the recent statement of the Finance Minister Faraj Boumtari in which he claimed that the number of employees is four times higher than what the state needs, Al-Mahjoub said that despite the presence of capital and businessmen, there are issues of employment in the private sector.
As a consequence, Al-Mahjoub stressed that the House of Representatives or the Government should enact and issue a set of legislation and laws by which the private sector is obliged to implement, ” in order to dispel citizens’ fears of employment in this sector,” according to him.
Al-Mahjoub attributed the poor orientation and sufficiency of the private sector in the form of a second job to the fear of social security laws and contracts.
Commenting on dispelling citizens’ fears, he said “if he private sector will guarantee their rights in line with the public sector, then pressure on the State will inevitably be relieved.”
In order to attract employees from the public sector, he highlighted the necessity of guaranteeing some facilities and advantages for the private sector, such as reducing taxes and rates of customs registration.