The Federal Authority for Government human resources in Abu Dhabi confirmed that the registration of all employees in the government agencies of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi in the new salary schedule will be completed no later than March 2020, to take advantage of the multiple benefits it provides.
While the Abu Dhabi Retirement Fund confirmed that the salary scale did not aim to reform the pension system, but it did provide a solution to the problem of the value of pensions, which citizens of Abu Dhabi government agencies have long complained about their weakness.
The Director of Institutional Communication Department, spokesperson for the fund, Fatima Al-Shariqi, confirmed that there are no new changes in the Abu Dhabi retirement law, explaining that the decision recently issued by the Abu Dhabi Executive Council did not aim to reform the pension system, because this matter is regulated by the Pensions and Retirement Law For the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
Al-Shariqi told Emirates Today that the new salary schedule provided a solution to the problem of the value of pensions that citizens working for government agencies in Abu Dhabi complained about their weakness compared to what they were receiving before retirement, as a result of the low salaries subject to deduction, and they accounted for 40% of the citizens ’salary , Pointing out that the new salary scale tackled the problem by including about 80% of the employee's salary in the salary subject to deduction on the basis of which the pension is calculated.
She said that the bonuses were not included in the calculation of the salary subject to deduction, but the new salary scale modified and raised the basic salary of employees, and distributed the supplementary bonus to the four elements subject to deduction (housing allowance, high cost of living and social allowances and children), to enter within the salary subject to deduction, which means Increase the value of this salary.