April 1 pay rise for state enterprise staff

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April 1 pay rise for state enterprise staff

Published: 28/03/2011 at 03:22 PM
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The cabinet has approved a five per cent salary raise for state enterprise employees, effective on April 1, cabinet secretary-general Ampon Kittiampon said on Monday.

Mr Ampon said the raise will be for state enterprise employees whose monthly salaries are less than 50,000 baht. The proposal was previously endorsed...

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ricefield
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Discussion 4 : 28/03/2011 at 09:38 PM4
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Increase is just vote buying in disguise. How about day workers these guys make over 10 times the day rate and get a raise. Priceless pandering to their support base.
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Discussion 3 : 28/03/2011 at 05:40 PM3
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Maybe the additional 2% increase is based on productivity gain.
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Discussion 2 : 28/03/2011 at 05:24 PM2
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They just don't seem to understand, the people pretty much have decided who they are voting for already. All of these raises are actually going to get some of the fence sitters who realize that it is their tax money going into these raises to vote against them for wasting money.
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Discussion 1 : 28/03/2011 at 04:42 PM1
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Interesting. The same cabinet that keeps insisting that inflation is around 3% approves this rise?!

Ah, of course, it's election time!

Abhisit, your moves are too predictable and boring.
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