CAVITY in PAY DEAL: Now, Fiji dentists sink their teeth into Government claiming they are also VICTIMS as Government tries to mollify the angry nurses, civil servants - by blaming Permanent Secretaries for inefficiency

20/9/2017

Fijileaks: Not only have the nurses and other civil servants not getting a pay rise but the dentists as well. Dentists are considered doctors but they've been recently told in a memorandum (Fijileaks is withholding it as it continues further research) that Dentistry is a non-essential service and it is not in demand hence there is no need for dental services in Fiji. They aren't going to increase that pay for dentists. World wide the dentists are one of the highest paid professionals.
In Fiji they're paid $18,277

September 21, 2017

MEDIA RELEASE

Blame yourself, not Civil Servants: NFP

The Attorney General and Minister for Civil Service is ducking for cover by blaming senior civil servants in government ministries for the discriminatory contracts being forced upon civil servants when it is the Civil Service Reform Unit under his control that has subjugated civil servants.

“The Attorney General should stop playing the blame game”. It is the AG and the Civil Service Reform Unit headed by its Director Jane Curran, who recently during the roadshow for teachers, labelled Education Ministry officials as being inferior in intellect by way of her comments of them not understanding English, who are to be solely blamed for the civil service reform debacle”, said National Federation Party Leader Professor Biman Prasad.

Professor Prasad pointed out that almost a month ago he had highlighted that position holders in the civil servants were first appointed to a grade lower than the substantive post they were holding and then given an acting appointment to their substantive position with 95% of the salary for the post.

The NFP Leader said he also highlighted that in the case of teachers it was revealed that those in the service for more than 25 years were put on the same level of salary as degree holders with far less work experience.

“The voices of the aggrieved teachers and civil servants were swept aside. Now in the latest roadshow, the AG made a comment that salaries must be commensurate with experience. He has lost all credibility and civil servants don’t have any faith and trust in this government to redress their grievances”.

“Then he turns around and says salary review is not a charity. He blames health workers for the pathetic state of our hospitals and also blames the Permanent Secretary for Health for failing to ensure workers diligently perform their duties”.

“This is symptomatic of this Government. They blame everyone under the sun but themselves for the cesspool created by their policies and actions. They have lost the plot”.

Professor Prasad said the contracts of civil servants were subjugating them to government and this has no place in a democracy and an NFP Government will revoke them, put civil servants on permanent tenure, increase the retirement age to 60 years and have a fair and just adjustment to salaries of all civil servants.

Authorised by: -
Professor Biman Prasad
NFP Leader

The Fiji Sun, 30 April 2017: We want a pay rise, a dental officer yesterday told the Attorney-General and Minister for Economy, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum, during his budget consultations in Labasa. Priyansha Chand, a dental officer at the Labasa Hospital, asked the Minister to review the base salary of graduates from the Fiji National University’s College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences.
“As a young graduate this is my third year of practicing and when I graduated I came in with a salary of $18,277. I studied for five years and spent close to $75,000. It is quite disheartening when you compare our pay to the present high cost of living. We want pay rise, please.” -
Miss Chand to Khaiyum

And look at Khaiyum's salary when he climbed up the greasy backside pole of 2006 coup to become INTERIM Attorney-General and Minister for JUSTICE. He just gave himself big fat salary- to be paid - not by the Ministry of Finance (now under his portfolio) but by AUNTY NUR BANO ALI. Worse, he and his Interim Government ministers hid their salaries from the public, presumably the money came partially from
Ms Chand's family's TAXES who have already financed her dental degree to the tune of $75,000 and she is on an indecent salary of $18,2777

PARTNER IN THE PAY SCAM?:
The intermediary between Prime Minister's Office and AlizPacific was Lt-Colonel PIO TIKODUADUA, the then Permanent Secretary in the Prime Minister's Office and now President of the National Federation Party of Fiji:

The above documents vindicate Fijileaks posting in 2014:

Bainimarama: "I swear that no military officer will benefit from my coup"

Fijileaks: Please can someone inform our readers what the hell is THIS FFP Minister screaming about, as if a bee has got into his SULU?

5 Comments

Samjoe

20/9/2017 09:48:09 pm

Well this abuse of the civil servants, nurses and dentists by Mr Know All Minister for Everything Khaiyum, should make it clear to them who they should vote for in the coming elections to serve their interests.

Welcome Home

20/9/2017 10:47:10 pm

This situation is quite ridiculous. Preposterous and might be deemed a purported abuse of human rights: not only for dental professionals but for their thousands of ailing patients. Gum Disease and a lack of daily and routine dental hygiene are now widely understood to contribute to inflammation leading to heart disease and in particular pericarditis. Having known a former Editor of a UK newspaper who died of this thirty years ago and closely watched Fiji's care of cardiac patients over twenty years this is too close to home. Access to good and regular dental care is a basic human right and a necessity for Good Health. In particular for all pregnant women and girls. Some pregnancies now occur in girls as young as 11/12 in Fiji! Have we got our Heads Around this fact? Or are we too concerned with pointing our fingers and 'pontificating' to those who ought to understand how badly they are served. Playing with fire! The Fire of Inflammation may bring the House of Cards down?

Chiku

21/9/2017 08:25:25 am

That young dental officer from Labasa who raised the issue of their pay was very modest by comparing it to the cost of living. After investing 5 years to graduate she is justified in feeling disheartened.
The real comparision is with people who have invested nothing, taken an unlawful shortcut to power and given themselves salaries and perks well beyond even their own dreams.
The unlawful shortcut taker includes Aiyaz Khaiyum to whom the young dental officer was making her appeal for a pay commensurate with her qualification, experience and profession.
Her profession makes a vital contribution to public health and well-being. It's productive.
Khaiyum and his cronies siphon off huge amounts from the public purse without doing anything really productive.
They should hang their heads in shame.
But that's asking TOO MUCH from these political scavengers.

Ratu

21/9/2017 09:10:57 am

It's so sad to see the ridiculous and infantile behaviour fm Fiji First parliamentarians displayed in yr video. The speaker, the obese and gluttonous Ambassador for Climate Change, Seruiratu, should learn the use of proper parliamentary language rather than utter his gibberish to the glee of his fellow FFP MPs, including AG Khaiyum who not so long ago was lamenting the lack of decorum in the Courts. Yet when one of his own cronies does it in parliament he applauds. Where is the consistency in this man?
One of the glaring weakenesses of Bainimarama and Khaiyum's imposed Constitution is that it is based on the adversarial Westminster style parliamentary system that promotes a confrontational and one-upmanship style of debate. Yr video is a good example of this system in practise. there are many other systems we could have adopted if the process had been more open. A consensus building model would of been more appropriate for a small and multi cultural country like ours.

Dekho

21/9/2017 09:31:26 pm

When I see the theatrical antics of the human ape in parliament and contrast that with what dental officers do in our public health care system it is not hard to see who belongs in the non- essential category.

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