The Iraqi government has been channeling its efforts for three months now toward issuing a law to standardize the salaries of state employees. The task was asigned to the legal committee of the cabinet’s Secretariat General. “The law aims to bridge the gap between the salaries of state employees,” declared a member of the committee.
The attempts of high-ranking officials, however, to keep the salaries of employees in their departments the same gets in the way of yielding fruitful results.
