Most lawmakers agreed to reduce the total cost of the salary scale while raising the VAT from 10 to 11 percent, Finance Minister Ali Hassan Khalil told Assafir newspaper.
Once the bill is passed and published in the official Gazette, the minister explained, government employees and public school teachers will start receiving 50 percent of the pay hike, while the rest will be paid in two installments by the end of 2015.
Khalil stressed that teachers will be granted a six-degree upgrade on each rank.
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