Thai Cabinet To Debate Bt6.8 Billion In Bonuses For Officials

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Cabinet to debate Bt6.8 bn in bonuses for officials

Piyanart Srivalo

The Nation

BANGKOK: -- The Cabinet will tomorrow consider a Bt6.8-billion budget to pay bonuses to civil servants in the 2013 fiscal year.

The bonuses, if approved in the Cabinet review, will be presented in the House vetting process of the Budget Bill. The payments will hinge on performance evaluation as per the proposal of the Public Sector Development Commission.

In a separate development, the Finance Ministry is seeking a green light from the Cabinet to revise contractual provisions between state enterprises and private contractors in the face of a rise in the daily minimum wage to Bt300.

The contractors could not absorb the additional cost incurred by the wage adjustment, which took effect from April 1. The contractual revision, if approved, would allow state enterprises to pay for the additional cost in lieu of contractors.

The Interior Ministry will seek Cabinet approval for a pay hike for administrators and councillors of Pattaya City.

Under the new pay scale, the salary of the Pattaya mayor will increase from Bt46,280 to Bt55,530.

Four deputy mayors will each receive Bt30,540, a raise from Bt25,450. The city mayor's secretary will get a raise from Bt16,200 to Bt19,440.

Four assistant secretaries will each be paid Bt13,880, an increase from Bt11,570.

The pay for the mayor's chief adviser will be Bt16,650, up from Bt13,880. The other four advisers will each be paid Bt13,880, up from Bt11,570.

The Pattaya council chairman will get a raise from Bt25,450 to Bt30,540. The chairman's two deputies will each be paid Bt24,990, an increase from Bt20,830. The 21 councillors will each have their pay raised from Bt16,220 to Bt19,440.

The per diem allowances for Pattaya officials will increase from Bt250 to Bt500 per committee meeting and from Bt200 to Bt400 per subcommittee meeting.

For local officials not affiliated with Pattaya City, their allowances will be Bt800 per committee meeting and Bt600 per subcommittee meeting.

The allowances for other officials will be Bt1,000 per committee meeting and Bt800 per subcommittee meeting.

-- The Nation 2012-06-18

[12DrinkMore]

I don't quite understand why the officials should get paid extra for attending meetings.

Isn't that what they do as part of the job?

Stand by for a flood of meetings,

they'll be having weekly meetings about planning the other meetings and then have a subcommittee meeting to check out the meeting plan, which will then be reviewed by the main committee meeting, by which time there won't be time for that meeting, so they'll have a meeting to adjourn the meeting to the next day.

That'll be 3,000 Baht thank you and, 'see you at the karaoke bar for an extra meeting'. Make it 4,000, thanks again.

[OzMick]

The fastest way to a Thai's vote is through his pocket

[GentlemanJim]

and.........................people still have not received their flood compensation and minimum wage etc etc etc.

[animatic]

This will bring in more grateful functionaries to the Shin Clan fold.

This is corruption right in your face. TIT.

[ginjag]

Pattaya mayor---and others Ha Ha ha, they allow sh#t scams, jet ski, rogue police, planning department allowing condo's to be erected smack in front of already built ones. Newest one is happening at Majestic condo, behind 7-11 shop. an 8 storey blocking the existing 5 storey. no notice no compo, downright dictatorial. The beaches and sea DIRTY, the roads are awash with empty taxies, on beach road where can tourists walk, certainly no wheelchairs-a no no. What a corrupt lot to be paid for that, plus countless wrongs not mentioned. Joke full stop, well done Yingluck.

[belg]

so did they all perform outstanding to deserve a 20% wage increase ? or is it just time to pay for the votes?

[looping]

These salaries for the Pattaya mayor etc are the tip of the iceberg. I bet they all drive mercs and live in massive villas from all the kickbacks. They must be joking about their wage rises over a few bottles of The finest champagne. Another pointless exercise.

[johna]

For Pattaya city administration, monthly salaries are a pittance compared to other job related income.

[theblether]

Compared to the tea money its only a little top up bonus

[Tanaka]

That would give the mayor and his staff over 300.000B every month. Plus bonuses. I would like to know just one thing these cretins have done to improve life for people in Pattaya. And I do not mean foreigners in particular.