Creating sub-career degrees and allocating a "recruitment allowance" for distinguished people

Abu Dhabi government employees will be placed on new salaries in March

Fatima Al-Shraiqi: The new salary scale provided a solution to the pension problem, which citizens complained about its weakness.

The Human Resources Authority in Abu Dhabi confirmed that all employees of the government agencies of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi will be accommodated in the new salary scale, by next March, as a maximum, to benefit from the multiple benefits it provides.

The Abu Dhabi Retirement Fund confirmed that the salary schedule was not aimed at reforming the pension system, but it provided a solution to the problem of the value of pensions, which has long been complained of by citizens of government agencies in Abu Dhabi.

In detail, the director of institutional communication at the Abu Dhabi Retirement Fund, Fatima Al-Shuraiqi, confirmed that there were no new changes in the retirement law of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, explaining that the decision issued by the Executive Council of the Government of Abu Dhabi, finally, did not target the reform of the retirement system, because this matter is regulated by the Pensions and Retirement Law. For the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.

Al-Shuraiqi told Emirates Today that the new salary schedule provided a solution to the problem of the value of pensions that citizens working for government agencies in Abu Dhabi complained of their weakness compared to what they were paid before retirement, as a result of the decrease in salaries subject to deduction, which constituted 40% of the citizen's salary. Pointing out that the new salary scale addressed the problem by including about 80% of the employee's salary in the salary subject to withholding, on the basis of which the pension is calculated.

She said that the bonuses were not included in the salary account subject to withholding, but the new salary schedule modified and fundamentally raised the salaries of employees, and the supplementary allowance was also distributed to the four elements subject to deduction, (housing allowance, cost of living and social allowances and children), to be included in the salary subject to deduction, which means Increase the value of this salary.

She pointed out that the 80% included in the decision was not intended to obtain the employee 80% of his salary as a value for the pension after retirement, explaining that after the employee completes 25 years of service, he receives 80% of the salary subject to deduction and not of the total salary.

Al-Shuraiqi stressed that all government employees will be able to know the value of their future pensions after completing the housing process on the new schedule that takes place during the next three months, through the electronic calculator provided by the Fund on the website.

While the Human Resources Authority in Abu Dhabi stated that the placement of employees in government agencies of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi in the new salary scale will be completed by next March as a maximum, indicating that the new schedule is an update to the comprehensive salary scale that has not been revised since its issuance in 2007, to represent an opportunity Good for rewarding distinguished employees by disbursing an “Excellence allowance” to encourage them to continue diligence.

She explained that the schedule provides the opportunity for employees to benefit from the advantages of career progression from promotions and an increase in salaries according to job grades, especially after the creation of sub-grades that employees can move between progressively according to their efforts.

She added that the new schedule grants heads of government agencies the power to attract distinguished functional elements from citizens to fill government jobs under the item "recruitment allowance."

Preservation of acquired rights

The Human Resources Authority in Abu Dhabi said that the new salary scale preserves the acquired rights of employees in relation to salary (basic and gross), and also works to give the candidate for employment among recent graduates an opportunity to prepare and develop them professionally for a job in the government agency through the contract rewards system With graduates trainees.

According to the decision, the Abu Dhabi government will bear the cost of implementing the decision, which includes the introduction of incentive allowances to support the recruitment of talent, reward the distinguished in government agencies, to encourage excellence and creativity, and give the candidate for appointment among new graduates an opportunity to prepare and develop them professionally.

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