By James O'toole and Vong Sokheng
The Phnom Penh Post
NGOs concerned about impact
THE government has terminated salary supplement programmes for civil servants, sparking concerns that public services, particularly for poor Cambodians, will suffer in the face of inadequate compensation for government employees.
Under such salary supplement programmes, development organisations had been bolstering salaries for civil servants in a range of sectors over the past several years.
“The termination of the … incentive schemes will apply to all cases across the complete portfolio of projects and programmes irrespective of the funding sources,” Minister of Economy and Finance Keat Chhon wrote in a letter dated December 4 and obtained by the Post Tuesday. “It is, therefore, applicable to all donor-assisted as well as [government-] funded projects and programmes.”
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