Thai Cabinet Delays Bt15,000 Pay Raise For Graduates

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Cabinet delays Bt15,000 pay raise for graduates

The Nation

BANGKOK: -- The proposed blanket pay raise to a standard Bt15,000 salary for civil servants with a bachelor's degree cannot be paid immediately, a government spokesperson said yesterday.

Such a pay hike in one stage would require Bt50 billion annually and affect the salary scales of private businesses, he said.

Anusorn Iamsa-ardn said reports about the Cabinet decision on Tuesday postponing the raise to a standard Bt15,000 salary for the next two years were not wholly true. Many government officials had already received pay on top of their salaries which had lifted their monthly income to Bt15,000 since January.

The promised blanket Bt15,000 pay hike, which would be in effect by 2014, would be a whole salary increase at entry level, without other pay included, he said.

Government officials with degrees lower than bachelor’s level had been paid Bt9,000 since January, as promised under the Pheu Thai-led government’s populist policies.

"The blanket raise to Bt15,000 has to be done in two steps. An immediate and widespread pay increase for government officials and employees in private businesses would affect the entire domestic employment scene and would lead to private firms losing their [attraction for] new graduates [with bachelor’s degrees]," he added.

-- The Nation 2012-04-12

[Colin Yai]

Not ANOTHER pre election promise for the "backburner", is there any left?

[edwinchester]

Thanks for voting.......suckers!

[Buchholz]

The proposed blanket pay raise to a standard Bt15,000 salary for civil servants with a bachelor's degree cannot be paid immediately, a government spokesperson said yesterday.

Such a pay hike in one stage would require Bt50 billion annually

Funny that none of the costs or conditions were considered or listed when they made their promise.

Perhaps none of the university-educated Pheu Thai MP's knew there are around 400,000 new university graduates every year before releasing their confabulated dishonesty.

Peau Thai Promises: Minimum Wage for Graduates

Oh well, another lie to stack like cord wood on top of their other lies.

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[Thai at Heart]

So, more or less, many are being salaried at just above minimum wage? Oh dear, what a massive can of worms they have opened up now. What exactly is a degree "below" bachelor level anyway?

The promised blanket Bt15,000 pay hike, which would be in effect by 2014, would be a whole salary increase at entry level, without other pay included, he said.

Government officials with degrees lower than bachelor’s level had been paid Bt9,000 since January, as promised under the Pheu Thai-led government’s populist policies.

[noitom]

Thais reneging on a monetary promise? Shocking!

[sungod]

Any comments from the Yingluck groupies?

[FOODLOVER]

"Such a pay hike in one stage would require Bt50 billion annually and affect the salary scales of private businesses, he said".

Surprise!

[sparebox2]

The proposed blanket pay raise to a standard Bt15,000 salary for civil servants with a bachelor's degree cannot be paid immediately, a government spokesperson said yesterday.

Such a pay hike in one stage would require Bt50 billion annually

Funny that none of the costs or conditions were considered or listed when they made their promise.

Perhaps none of the university-educated Pheu Thai MP's knew there are around 400,000 new university graduates every year before releasing their confabulated dishonesty.

Peau Thai Promises: Minimum Wage for Graduates

Oh well, another lie to stack like cord wood on top of their other lies.

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What lie? No dates on the poster to say when.

Edited April 12, 2012 by sparebox2

[apetley]

The proposed blanket pay raise to a standard Bt15,000 salary for civil servants with a bachelor's degree cannot be paid immediately, a government spokesperson said yesterday.

Such a pay hike in one stage would require Bt50 billion annually

Funny that none of the costs or conditions were considered or listed when they made their promise.

Perhaps none of the university-educated Pheu Thai MP's knew there are around 400,000 new university graduates every year before releasing their confabulated dishonesty.

Peau Thai Promises: Minimum Wage for Graduates

Oh well, another lie to stack like cord wood on top of their other lies.

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What lie? No dates on the poster to say when.

Well the govt spokesman is now saying the 15k can't be paid immediately and has to be staged over the coming years which does imply the expection was for it all to be implemented soon after taking up office.

Ill thought out at best.

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[MEL1]

The proposed blanket pay raise to a standard Bt15,000 salary for civil servants with a bachelor's degree cannot be paid immediately, a government spokesperson said yesterday.

Such a pay hike in one stage would require Bt50 billion annually

Funny that none of the costs or conditions were considered or listed when they made their promise.

Perhaps none of the university-educated Pheu Thai MP's knew there are around 400,000 new university graduates every year before releasing their confabulated dishonesty.

Peau Thai Promises: Minimum Wage for Graduates

Oh well, another lie to stack like cord wood on top of their other lies.

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What lie? No dates on the poster to say when.

Oh! ... So they meant in 2070, but forgot to mention it in the run up? Khun kit baa!

[Pib]

Cheap promises reflect the character of those who made them.

[Ricardo]

Let them eat Mama, like their professors !

Government officials with degrees lower than bachelor's level

Presumably refers to 'Khao San Road' degrees, yet-another Thai counterfeit product ?

[djayz]

The only people who really believed there was going to be pay hikes were the people who voted this bunch in...

[MEL1]

The only people who really believed there was going to be pay hikes were the people who voted this bunch in...

It's never mentioned, and I don't know why, but the rice farmers were promised a 50Kg bag would increase from resale price of 500Bt to 600Bt prior to Mr T raking in his cronies' votes. I have been told this by many a family in Ubon, and they are actually quite dismayed with Mr T at this moment. They aren't sure if they are actually red-shirts anymore, but they don't know where else to turn as the other lots don't encroach the red leaders in those districts for fear of safety.

Anybody else here experienced the same said promise of rice prices? (As it could be rural gossip, of course)

-mel.

[AZBill]

Cabinet kickback checks must be late this month and they had to look elsewhere to dip into! Sorry kids - daddy needs a new man purse!

[Buchholz]

Perhaps the Thaksin Thinks, Pheu Thai Acts party could follow their programs for taxi drivers and farmers and simply issue credit cards to the university grads with a 15K/month limit.

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[siampolee]

P.T. Policy enactment.

[Thaddeus]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWsJcg-g1pg

[AleG]

Yet the 30 or so % cut in corporate taxes for the rich happened so fast and so soon after forming the PTP government that hardly anyone seems to have noticed.

Certainly the poor downtrodden red masses who cast their hopeful votes didn't rise a stink over another self serving act by and for the elites.

[waza]

Hmmm how long before the reality of the PTP election promises will become apparent to the masses. Meanwhile the pigs engorge themselves at the public trough.

[sparebox2]

Hmmm how long before the reality of the PTP election promises will become apparent to the masses. Meanwhile the pigs engorge themselves at the public trough.

I suppose you are referring to Thai pigs, as Farang pigs are not allowed to vote.

[apetley]

Hmmm how long before the reality of the PTP election promises will become apparent to the masses. Meanwhile the pigs engorge themselves at the public trough.

I suppose you are referring to Thai pigs, as Farang pigs are not allowed to vote.

I think the gorging pigs referred to are those in positions of power.

In Thailand I would hazard a guess most of those are Thai as foreigners are not allowed to hold office are they?

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[otherstuff1957]

Yet the 30 or so % cut in corporate taxes for the rich happened so fast and so soon after forming the PTP government that hardly anyone seems to have noticed.

Certainly the poor downtrodden red masses who cast their hopeful votes didn't rise a stink over another self serving act by and for the elites.

Not to mention the new house tax break and the new car tax break... It's funny how a government that is supposed to be helping the rural poor is able to help the middle class, but not the people who elected them!

I suspect that it's as Mel speculated above... no matter what the reality, the Northern and North Eastern Rural poor are going to vote Red anyways, so why bother enacting policies that help them?

[drdoom6996]

For the next 3 and 1/2 years

[drdoom6996]

"Such a pay hike in one stage would require Bt50 billion annually and affect the salary scales of private businesses, he said".

Surprise!

We knew that when they said it in June. It can't be done with both inflation (the ones that got the raise), and deflation, (the ones that didn't). Because if you got the raise you got a job and probably cost 3 people their jobs. These 3 are in the unemployment line.

[allan michaud]

Any comments from the Yingluck groupies?

Yep, predictably conspicuous by their absence. Come on guys we could all do with a laugh.

Edited April 12, 2012 by allan michaud

[obi1970]

yeah this was yingluck brightest idea , rase salary and get more people fired so they to end up in poverty . its always same no yingluck groupies to comment on this

[Nodski]

"Such a pay hike in one stage would require Bt50 billion annually and affect the salary scales of private businesses, he said".

Surprise!

And they didn't bother to work out this EXTREMELY simple calculation before telling everyone their 'grand' plan? Or will the 'red voters' not be put off by this childish claim? Just exudes complacency on a grand scale to most other people.

[Nodski]

Thanks for voting.......suckers!

Has anyone tried to interview a new graduate, or worse, employed one? If the plan is to increase their first salary by 6 or 7,000 baht, what plan to improve the quality is in place? What about the people with no degrees but 3, 5 or 10 years experience who actually know their job? Are they going to be put on 20,000 plus minimum?