Reconstruction company stage demonstrations over salaries in Wassit

WASSIT/ IraqiNews.com: Staff of a reconstruction company on Thursday staged demonstrations in Wassit to call for their inclusion in a new plan of counting differences in salaries. “The Staff for Humurabi Contracting Company, in Wassit rallied in front of Provincial Council’s building, calling for their inclusion in a plan giving government public servants differences of their low monthly salaries,” Saad Jabbar, one of the demonstrators, told IraqiNews.com. “The demonstrators called to re-work a scheme considering service period and university degree in a salary system and they also called to turn fixed contract employees into permanent posts,” Jabbar noted. Hamurabi Company, a subsidiary of the Housing and Reconstruction Ministry, has 500 employees including 76 working in fixed contract for six years with 100 thousands Iraqi Dinars (nearly $85) salary. Kut, the capital city, Wassit, a border province and the main route from Baghdad to southern provinces, lies 180 km south Baghdad. AM (P)/SR 1