{"id":8684,"date":"2022-06-10T11:59:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T11:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=8684"},"modified":"2022-06-10T11:59:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T11:59:27","slug":"federal-cabinet-approves-15pc-increase-in-salaries-of-govt-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/federal-cabinet-approves-15pc-increase-in-salaries-of-govt-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal Cabinet approves 15pc increase in salaries of govt employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Special meeting of Federal Cabinet on Friday approved 15 percent increase in salaries of government employees.<\/p>\n<p>The cabinet also accorded its approval to five percent increase in pensions.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was briefed that increase in salaries will put an additional burden of Rs71 billion of the government.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/news\/experts-stressed-sufficient-budget-allocation-for-girls-education.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Experts stressed sufficient budget allocation for girls&#8217; education<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>However, the premier said that raise in salaries is need of the hour.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Minister for Information and Broadcasting Marriyum Aurangzeb, in a tweet, said that the Prime Minister has rejected the Finance Ministry\u2019s proposal of a 10% increase and has approved an increase in government employees\u2019 salaries of 15% with the consent of the cabinet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Special meeting of Federal Cabinet on Friday approved 15 percent increase in salaries of government employees. The cabinet also accorded its approval to five percent increase in pensions. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was briefed that increase in salaries will put an additional burden of Rs71 billion of the government. Read more:\u00a0Experts stressed sufficient budget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[5415],"class_list":["post-8684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-prime-minister-shehbaz-sharif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}