‘Bahrain government will not cut incentives, promotions’ | THE DAILY TRIBUNE | KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN

‘Bahrain government will not cut incentives, promotions’ | THE DAILY TRIBUNE | KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN

TDT | Manama

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Bahrain will continue with its employee promotions and incentives programmes, given that it does not exceed the budgetary allocations, said parliamentarian Mahmood Al Bahraini.

MP Al Bahraini, also the head of the Parliamentary Financial and Economic Committee, revealed that the government would continue to provide annual increments for employees and allowances for workers in the public sector.

“Government has no intentions to reduce it,” Al Bahraini added. Voluntary retirement scheme, Al Bahraini said, saved the government around BD125 million in expenditures.

“This accounts for 16 per cent of manpower related expenditures in the Kingdom,” he pointed out.

He also said the Civil Service Bureau has opened doors for interdepartmental transfers to fill vacancies and restructured 52 government agencies to cut costs.

In a statement to AlAyam, Al-Bahrani said that during the discussion of the upcoming