Tunisia: government consents to increment state worker compensation

Tunisia’s administration and the Tunisian General Labor Union (UGTT) have agreed for the wages of state workers to be expanded by 3.5 percent, Anadolu has announced.

“The arrangement expected to be marked specifies an expansion in compensation for the years 2023, 2024, and 2025, given that the increment will be dispensed beginning from 2023,” affirmed neighborhood sources. Tunis Afrique Presse said that the pay increment will help around 680,000 state workers.

As per UGTT Secretary-General Noureddine Taboubi, dealings with the public authority covered numerous viewpoints, including the disintegration of residents’ buying power, the expansion in compensation, and the issue of unfortunate families.

Government representative and Minister of Employment and Vocational Training Nasreddine Nsibi said on Monday that an understanding had been reached with the UGTT on most focuses with the exception of a solitary disputed matter connected with the level of pay increments for the next few years. “The exchanges nearly prevailed with regards to consenting to set the cutoff times connected with the increment, and just a single disputed matter connected with the pace of increment remained,” Nsibi told columnists.

Tunisia is experiencing a monetary and monetary emergency, which has been exacerbated by the repercussions of the Covid-19 pandemic and the conflict in Ukraine, notwithstanding the political flimsiness that the nation has encountered since President Kais Saied forced uncommon measures on 25 July last year.

The International Monetary Fund has approached the Tunisian government to control the state wage bill to accomplish public money soundness.