9 July 2018 05:35 pm
GMOA Secretary Dr Haritha Aluthge said the recommendations to update the allowance had been already made by the National Salaries and Cadre Commission and the Health Ministry.
He said that in a meeting held on June 7, Finance Ministry Secretary had agreed to respond the proposal within two weeks period but no official response was made yet.
Also, Dr Aluthge said the medical officers concerned of the impact to the professionals via the new Inland Revenue Act and it had suggested some amendments to the Act.
He further explained that the Government decision to increase salaries for selected fields such as judiciary sector had violated the national policy on salaries and it had created injustice to other state employees including medical officers.
The GMOA had given a period of one week starting today to authority’s to respond to the issues pertaining to the medical officers.
The GMOA executive committee had unanimously decided to resort to strike action at any time in the week after July 17 if the authorities failed to resolve the given matters. (Thilanka Kanakarathna)
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