Thou Shalt Not- IMF conditions on wage bills

Related to earlier post about Action Aid report on African education and the Fund, the following are some of the conditions related to wage bills on PRGF Programs;

Measures to improve payroll management

• Develop a payroll and civil service roster based on a civil service census or update the registry of staff records (Chad). Complete a census of the wage bill for all budgetarysector employees (Albania).

• Transfer of the budgetary and administrative oversight on the pay, and transfer of paymasters to, the Treasury (Democratic Republic of Congo).

• Cabinet to approve the final plan for the civil service reform covering human resource policy, reviewing the organization and structure of the civil service and addressing wage policy and payroll management (Ghana).

• Establish public service remuneration board (Malawi).

• Completion of a financial audit of the wage bill (Niger).

• Introduce photo verification system for civil servants and teachers (Sierra Leone).

• Submission to cabinet of a timetable for the design of a comprehensive medium-term civil service reform (Azerbaijan).

Measures to streamline the computation of wages
• Determine new mechanism to determine salaries of public officials (Kenya).

• Consolidate all allowance into the salary structure (Malawi).

• Reorganize procedures for paying civil servants based on the recommendations of the external audit of the payroll system (Democratic Republic of Congo).

• Develop detailed schedule of wage adjustments by grade (Malawi).

• Issue regulations to integrate supplementary benefits into the overall salary (Honduras).

Measures to rationalize employment levels
• Eliminate identified ghost workers (Democratic Republic of Congo).

• Implement plan to eliminate vacancies (Nepal).

• Reduce the number of employees in the education sector by 5 percent (Tajikistan).

• Outline the process for reducing the wage bill by 5 percent through retrenchment
(Dominica).