Of Up and Up?

*changes after note by Skyprine(thanks!)
Civil Service pay will be reviewed and the information announced in parliament on 9th april..

well well, the motive behind the move is simply,to retain staff. However, all that has been said now seems to suggest that the top to middle management are lagging behind and therefore they will get their increment..

are our political leaders geared up for a pay rise to keep them in office? are they not earning enough from the singapore economic machine? the last time i checked, our PM earns more than the US President, now that's something for a small singapore

what i really wonder now is how the folks at the bottom of the food chain will get affected.. you see, the civil service is not about simple structures and direct chain of commands.. lets say you work in a particular division, you report to a direct supervisor, who in turn reports to a division head, the division head would probably report to a department head, the department head reports to the bigger head, who in turns reports to a deputy secretary(DS) and the DS reports to a PS(Permanent Secretary) who then reports to the Minister.. the minster reports to the Prime Minister's Office(PMO).
Note: Ministers of States, Blah blah excluded.. u already got the idea how bloody long chain this is..
so when pay has to rise.. from the top man down to the auntie that does data entry on a daily basis, who gets more? who is this "talent" that we must pay more to retain and encourage loyalty?

already using such scales.. a high level (read: overseas scholar)head's monthly pay can probably cover the cost of employing a small unit of aunties and diploma holders in that same month, from a management point of value, the head provides higher value and thus has more "retention value"

just like the GST package, the "middle-class", diploma holders, pass-2nd lower honours degree holders are sandwiched between the auntie and the scholar

but without the aunties to keep the data, without the coordinators to do procurement, without the young chaps who does the photocopying, phonecall and other "sai gang".. what good would this high level leader be?







9 April, i await