Civil servants not getting enough salaries ?

First, the Umno Youth Complaint Bureau's Chairman said that the government is not doing enough to create more jobs for the bumiputra graduates. And, he also suggested to the government to enforce 30% job quota in the private sector for bumiputras.

Now, the President of Cuepacs ( labour union for civil servants ), Omar Osman, hinted the civil servants are not getting enough pay and would refuse over time work, because they can work part time in private sector to get better compensation. Is this guy for real. Is he hinting that, we need to pay civil servant across the board higher salaries to encourage them to put in the little bit of extra efforts to render service excellence ?

God, who owes them a living ? kanlinlowboo... Everyday kowpek kowboooooo.

Malaysia has a low population of approximately 26 million people, but despite many major privatization of essential services, the tax payers are still burdened with 1.2 million civil servants, which works out to the ratio of 1 civil servant to 21 citizen. Omar said civil servants are reluctant to perform overtime work because the compensations are not attractive enough compared to private sector ? What a big joke ! By right, with that high ratio of 1:21, there shouldn't be any need for overtime work at all, and there shouldn't be any delay in delivery of government services at all. In fact, all their work should be completed within working hours, and if need be, the working hours should be reduced to save administrative overheads such as electricity, water, utilities, etc. They can not finished their work during office hours ? What have they been doing in the office ? peeling ikan bilis and kangkong ? gossiping politics ?

I am not a work flow expert, but as a tax payer, I find it unacceptable for the continuous lame excuses put up by the civil servants union to seek higher compensations by claiming improved productivity and comparing their compensation packages with the private sectors. Honestly, has there been any slight improvement in civil servant productivity ? with the current ratio, I don't think so ! Perhaps, when the ration is improved to say, 1: 100, then maybe the civil servants can stake claim of their improve productivity.

Another fallacy always put forward by Cuepac is, "employee in private sector get better pay than civil servant". Now, let be honest about this claim. Has there really been any audited and conclusive reports by independent study groups to stake this claim ? NO, no... and NO. Not that I am aware of. All these kowpek Kowboo civil servants are biasedly quoting figures from their god-knows-what sources to sinfully attempt to justify for higher salaries.

By claiming the reasons of unable to make ends meet, irrelevant productivity indicators, and selective comparison with private sector's compensation package to seek higher compensation package, the civil servants are indirectly using emotions to threaten Malaysians and conducting economic blackmailing. This irresponsible and ungrateful attitude must stop.

I personally know many hard working civil servants who work their butts out and are unselfishly committed to the professionalism demanded from their positions. These committed professional civil servants never demand higher compensations, because they know, their positions demand them to fulfill their obligations of national service and genuine productivity. To all those unhappy civil servants, the grass is always greener on the other side, if you felt that you are beinh shortchanged in the government services, please resign now to join the private sectors, rather than hogging on to the vacancies that other patriotic Malaysians are willing to fill. Please lah, stop making all those irritating noises, let's take the challenge, resign now to join the private sector !

How green was my grass ? I have this to say to you.... Stop complaining that you are getting not enough salary. Be thankful, at least you still have a job. When your salary is not enough, please try to live within your means. If you made less than RM2000 a month, tried not to impress other with your potential to live like a king. I have no problem eating chapfun everyday, what makes you think that you must given the special priviledge to dine in upmarket restaurants to impress the less fortunates ?

40% Salary Increase for Civil Servants ?

The Malaysia's civil servants wanted a salary increase of up to 40% across the board. They claimed that their productivity and performance had improved. Some of the example given by Cuepacs ( Civil Servant trade union) are passports can now be ready within hours, and several government agencies had raised their key performance index and achieved ISO certifications. Another set of reasons given for asking the salary increment is petrol, water, electricity, toll rates has gone up and likely to be increased again. Civil servant are finding it difficult to cope with the increasing costs of livings as compared to salaried workers in the private sector.

I find it interesting that, with a population of 26 million people, we actually have a huge 1 million civil servants in Malaysia. That works out to 1 civil servant for every 26 citizen. After many huge privatization exercises, I am indeed surprised that there are still so many civil servants out there. We have not even take into consideration of the number of employees in other government related organizations. Honestly, with this huge number of civil servants, has there been significant improvement in civil servants' performance and productivities ?

The question is, is it productive to have such a high ratio of 1 civil servant to every 26 citizens ? How does this translate into improved productivity as claimed by Cuepacs as compared to 10 years ago ? Perhaps, when the ratio is improved to 1 civil servant to 260 citizens, then maybe it is appropriate for Cuepacs to stake the claim for improved productivity and performance.

No doubt, a passport application can now be processed and issued within a few hours. That merely gave an indication of the appropriateness of new technology being used in the Immigration Department, it has nothing to do with the improved productivity of the civil servants.

With regards to ISO certifications, it is basically a process of "do what you report, and report what you do", and a long overdue requirement for quality control and accountability. It has nothing to do with productivity improvement. ISO compliances are basically the basic job responsibilities of civil servants, and it should never be used to seek for higher salary.

Petrol, water, electricity, and toll rates increases are basically due to inefficiency in the management of resources. It should never be used as justification for another round of salary increases by civil servants. Right minded civil servants should find ways to work with the government and privatised agencies to ensure better and efficient management of resources to bring down the costs.

The Cuepacs also claimed that Civil servants are getting less compared with salaried workers of private sector. I would like to believe that this is a misconception anf fallacy. I have yet to come across a audited report objectively stating that private sector employees are better paid than civil servants. Therefore, Cuepacs should not resort to emotional justification for higher salary. Maybe Cuepacs should engage ASLI to prepare a report to substantiate their claims of civil servant being under paid compared to private sectors.

As a tax payer, I am not against better salary package for civil servants. But the productivity and performance of the civil servants must be significantly improved first. In addition, there are hard working civil servants, and there are also not so hard working civil servants. Any salary increase must be exercised on case by case basis in accordance to real performance and productivity, not across the board as proposed by Cuepacs. Irresponsible demand for higher salary without taking into consideration of real productivities and values added deliverables will create unnecessary inflationary impacts on our economy. General elections maybe coming soon, is this an indirect threat of using the 1 million numbers as an indirect form of votes selling?