A call to reduce the wage gap between the public and private sectors

2/13/2017 0:00

BAGHDAD / Mustafa al-Hashemi
Create jobs and distributed fairly and the level of wages acceptable secures a dignified life to the people of the community and contribute to the promotion of the spirit of the work and the sense of belonging and doing production and service activities, so as to achieve some sort of stability in the indicators to obtain financial resources for individuals.

These propositions - is achieved, according to specialists - in cooperation and coordination between government agencies and the private sector on the one hand, and between the House of Representatives, as a legislative involved in the enactment of laws, on the other hand, in order to ensure a balance of jobs, especially if there are staff engaged in acts After Hours or to work someone more than work with his family at the same time what affect the fairness of the distribution of jobs and devote unemployment.

Economic academic d. Imad Rashid said in an interview for the "morning" the need to distribute jobs fairly by ensuring universal access to those opportunities from the public sector and the private sector.

He added that Iraq is witnessing rates of unemployment due to the possession of someone or doing work overtime after the end of the government spiral, he may be excused because of the high cost of living, stressing that the competitiveness between the public and the private sector in this case would be for government jobs, especially if labor law has not been activated properly.

He stressed Rashid said the labor market is witnessing a lot of these cases, what is lost young people's efforts and ability to construction and development, Maidao to exploit their potential optimally, calling for legislation that would strike a balance between the functions of the public and private sectors and reduce the wage gap, especially security and pension, which aspires to everyone.

He believed that to reconsider the level of wages and employment opportunities between the government and private sectors would also provide an attractive investment environment to support the work of the private sector and reduce unemployment.

The text of the Iraqi constitution to provide a decent life for all members of the community to ensure their human rights.
Rashid pointed out that reducing the wage gap would create some sort of stability in all local markets in all sectors such as housing, trade, energy and others, stressing that the achievement of the overall stability requires an internationally recognized and adopted plans for the advancement of economic reality.

He stressed the potential to address a number of economic problems through reconsider the level of wages in general, pointing out that the public sector suffer from disguised unemployment, at a time when we see aversion evident in the field of work in the private sector due to lack of pension guarantees offered by government jobs, noting that the matter the level of wages means wage level secure a dignified life to slice workers in various sectors.

Rashid called for the adoption of the principle of equal wages and guarantees to the fact that the private sector is able to reduce unemployment and contribute actively to increase the total output of Iraq.

He continued that the economic problem of the country can be treated in this way as it would reduce the need for foreign labor and the low level of wages as marginal compared with the marginal productivity is reflected positively on the unemployment rate.

Rasheed between the importance of boosting productivity by reducing dependence on imported oil sector and direct investment-intensive sectors of employment such as tourism, technology, human capital, with the need for continuous analysis of the determinants of employment and unemployment, stressing the importance of adopting a strategy to absorb the surplus labor force through the establishment of a training and rehabilitation courses for those who wish to work in the fields required by the market.

He stressed the need for the development of evolutionary and developmental programs geared towards young people, and attention to training and scientific environment, pointing to the need to provide the labor market requirements and promote the outputs of the education sector to support the science work which would generate working hands with experience, which is looking for an investor.

Turn competent in economic affairs Mahmoud Mehdi Hassoun said that his level of wages is a magnet for all, adding that acceptable rates is the need to achieve a balance in the turnout rates for jobs in the public and private sectors as a stage Ooly.ofatt Hassoun to the existence of a minimum wage in all countries of the world may believe the basic requirements of the families in that country and makes them committed to constitutional duties and supporting economic action and taxes paid for the delivery of basic services.

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