PUTRAJAYA: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has announced the highest ever increase in civil servants' remuneration, at a rate of more than 13 per cent.

The increase will be effective Dec 1 this year.

The last time the civil servants' salaries were revised was 12 years ago, and the highest increase in the past was at 13 per cent.

"This increase will cost the government more than RM10 billion. The amount is big, and this is a decent increase, and the best ever in history... it is because of the Madani government."

The prime minister said in his mandate during the Labour Day celebration in Putrajaya International Convention Centre here, today.

Anwar, who is also finance minister, also announced that the overall minimum pay for civil servants must reach more than RM2,000.

"Currently, the overal minimum pay which includes their salary and fixed allowance is RM1,795 per maonth.

"I agree, that this is unreasonable. Under the Public Service Remuneration System (SSPA), the government willl increase the salary to ensure that the minimum pay for civil servants will exceed RM2,000 per month."

Anwar said the governments of Sabah and Sarawak had agreed to make amendments to their ordinances, to match the Employees Act 1955 which is applicable in Peninsular Malaysia.

The bill to amend the Sabah Labour Ordinance and Sarawak Labour Ordinance would be tabled in the next parliamentary session.

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