Parliamentary committee audits temporary contracted employees in state institutions

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Finance Parliamentary Committee announced that ”The number of the people who were hired by state institutions with temporary contracts reached more than million and half persons.”The Head of the Parliamentary Committee, Hayder al-Abadi, reported to IraqiNews.com that ”During the preparation of the budget tables for 2013 we were surprised that were there about million and half persons hired on temporary contracts in the state institutions.””The number of the people hired on temporary contracts is too many and we can not transform them on permanent staff even if we want to,” the statement added.”We have suspecions that there are political sides hired those contractors without committing to conditions and so we need to audit and investigate details regarding this matter,” Abadi pointed out.”Some MPs called to hire people on temporary contracts without any controls and we consider it as an invitation for corruption which will bring no benefit for people,” the statement concluded. \