During the heat of strikes for salary increment in the last quarter of the last financial year, one of the recommendations made was for government to establish a salary review commission to comprehensively look at salaries and their scales for all government employees with the view of harmonizing and weeding out pay disparities.
Government has now started on the process of all putting in place a salary review commission whose recommendations, if implemented, would lead to a new salary structure for all public servants.
With government prioritizing only scientists (including science teachers) and senior UPDF officers on matters salary enhancement during the current (2022-2023) financial year, the Museveni administration hopes to handle all the demands for salary increment as have been made by several unions in the months leading to the end of the FY2021-2022.
Now according to Public Service Minister Muruli Mukasa, the process of establishing a Salaries Review Commission will be completed by the end of this calendar year.
This means that undertaking a review of salaries of government employees, which will be based on the Commission’s recommendations, could begin sometime in 2023.
This revelation, as made by Minister Muruli Mukasa as he appeared before the Human Rights Committee of Parliament on July 26, also means that public servants hoping for salary increment might have to wait until the salary review process is concluded before seeing an upward revision of salaries.
Meanwhile, Public Service Permanent Secretary Catherine Bitarakwate Musingwiire has revealed that government plans to increase arts teachers salaries to the tune of Shs4m per month in the year 2026. (Read Story Here).
Meanwhile, in what sounded like dashing all the hopes of arts teachers who were expecting a salary increment this financial year, Finance Ministry Permanent Secretary Ramathan Ggoobi recently said that Museveni’s government would not allow any supplementary budgets, including those to increase salaries. (Read Story Here).
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In order to improve service delivery and end the challenge of strikes over low pay, President Museveni’s government has proposed huge salary increments for teachers, doctors and other employees starting July 2022. (Read Story Here)
The proposed increments left many people wondering if government will really fulfill this pledge and increase salaries by very high amounts.
For example, opposition leader Dr Kizza Besigye has argued that the promise of salary increment is just ‘another lie.’ (Read Story Here).
Finance Minister Matia Kasaija said the money for increasing teachers’, doctors’ and other civil servants’ salaries was available. (Read Story Here).
In August 2021, cabinet approved salary increment for teachers, doctors and other health workers. (Read Story Here).
See the salary structure that had been proposed for the 2021-2022 financial year here.
UPDATED LIST: See Salary Structure for All Government Workers
Meanwhile, an NRM MP angered teachers after telling them they are too poor to go on strike. (Read Story Here).
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