Pay slip controversy: A manager in Iran was sentenced to prison
Nasser Siraj, head of the Inspection Organization in Iran, has announced that the director of one of the institutions has been sentenced to prison in connection with the amount of his salary.
Mr. Siraj said today, Sunday, July 26 (June 26), regarding the reason for issuing a prison sentence to this government manager, that he refused to explain the amount of his salary to the Inspection Organization and refused to provide documents related to his salary.
The name of this manager and the organization he works for have not been announced.
According to the head of Iran's Inspection Organization, the prison sentence of this government official has not yet been carried out.
The salaries of government managers and the publication of salary slips worth tens of millions of tomans for a number of insurance and bank managers in media outlets critical of the government have become a controversy in Iran's political atmosphere.
In contrast, the Iran newspaper published a list of managers of the ninth and tenth governments headed by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, claiming that many political officials during that period received bonuses of up to 100 gold coins and tens of millions of tomans.
In response to these events, a number of government managers also voluntarily published their pay slips. Some ordinary citizens also posted their pay slips on social media as a sign of protest, showing that they receive salaries dozens of times less than those of government managers.
Eshaq Jahangiri, Iran's First Vice President, promised today at the end of the Salary and Wage Council meeting that those receiving illegal and "unusual" salaries will be dealt with.
According to Mr. Jahangiri, based on Article 74 of the Civil Service Management Law, all agencies of the Islamic Republic must obtain permission from the Salary and Wage Council to determine or change the salaries and benefits of their employees or any new type of payment.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said two weeks ago that salaries and benefits paid outside the legal framework should be returned to the government treasury and the violator should be dismissed.
After several days of conflict and confirmation and denial of the news of the dismissal or resignation of the director of Refah Bank, today, Ali Rabiei, Minister of Labor, Welfare and Social Affairs, said on the sidelines of a ceremony that the new director of Refah Bank will be introduced tomorrow.
It was previously reported that 240 million tomans of the amounts that the then director of the Workers' Welfare Bank received as salaries and benefits had been returned to the treasury.
Source: BBC
