Ouagadougou: The Burkinabe government has adopted a decree allowing it to have a harmonized framework for setting the remuneration of agents of state companies.
The decree, adopted yesterday Wednesday in the Council of Ministers, ‘allows us to have a harmonized framework for setting staff remuneration and the methods for determining retirement compensation within state companies’, reads -on in the report of the meeting.
Public social security establishments are also affected by this remuneration harmonization measure.
The government says it has noted ‘disparities’ in the treatment of staff remuneration in state-owned companies but also within public social security establishments and the absence of a general framework governing the setting of said remuneration.
The decree is based on a recommendation of the 31st session of the General Assembly of State Companies and the conclusions of the General Assembly devoted to the approval of the 2022 accounts of the Public Social Security Establishments (EPPS).
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ring a high-level meeting devoted to the management of state companies, in September 2023, Prime Minister Apollinaire Joachimson Kyelem de Tambèla was offended to observe enormous differences in the remuneration of a state-owned company. State to another.
‘There is no reason why, in state-owned companies, remuneration can go from simple to five times or even ten times more. We must work on the harmonization of remuneration in state companies, because these divergences lead to frustrations,’ he said.
In 2023, there were 19 state companies having presented their balance sheet to the AGM of state companies, having achieved a turnover of 1,694.473 billion FCFA in 2022.
Source: Burkina Information Agency