There are heated discussions going on between several groups of high-ranking public servants on social media regarding the salary revisions proposed in this year’s budget for government employees.
They allege that with the new salary revisions proposed in the 2025 Budget, their monthly gross salary is likely to decrease.
The allowance paid to health professionals for working on holidays, which was one twentieth of the monthly salary per day for more than two decades, has been reduced to one thirtieth while the allowance paid for an hour of overtime in the paramedical and nursing services has been reduced to two hundredths of one hundred and sixty of the monthly salary.
Doctors, university lecturers, and nursing officers have been affected the most by this situation.
It is reported that the public sector trade unions are going to raise the matter with government authorities soon.
Meanwhile, Ravi Kumudesh, president of the Academy of Health Professionals said that the idea of increasing the salaries of public servants through the budget is a complete mathematical illusion.
“Promotions that were given after six years have been extended to ten years. Those that were given after twelve years have become twenty years. If you go to a university in Sri Lanka, get a degree, and get a government job, you will get your last promotion when you go to the cemetery.
This system can never make the public service efficient. With the aim of making the paramedical service efficient and reducing costs, the management training that was discussed and developed for many years has been abolished. Only a government like this can treat public servants who were looking forward to this kind of treatment,” he added.
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