Libya Pay Gap Criticism

A draft bill circulating in Libya to raise wages has drawn criticism over the gap between officials’ and employees’ salaries. It proposes 12,000 dinars for the head of the Presidential Council and the speakers of the House of Representatives and the High Council of State, 11,000 for the prime minister, and 8,000 for ministers, compared with 825 to 4,312 dinars for employees in grades one through sixteen. Unions representing university education and air traffic control have objected. Judges, too, have rejected any reduction in their benefits; under a law currently in force, their basic monthly salaries range from 7,200 to 13,600 dinars. The bill has moved into parliamentary debate amid warnings that the studies underpinning it are inadequate, that living costs have been ignored, and that the country’s government is divided. One lawmaker said the House would not pass it in its current form.

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