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773 · Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 213

Hi all, I am a little confused about the recent news about the 70% payraise...is that for UAEU employees too? I am really confused in light of the 25% we were just told we would get. I assume that the 70% applies to other govt. employees? Or UAEU too?

Iamherebecause · Posted: Wed Nov 28, 2007 4:45 am Post subject:

I have heard from a reliable source that UAEU will get it but don't plan your expenditure until you see it's in the bank. We've been there before, there was the pay-rise that was announced back in 2005, and there were all sorts of reassurances that it was in the pipeline but somehow the pipeline got blocked or sprang a leak and the folk who'd been saying it was on the way Just Went Quiet. Emiratis got something but not expats.

The 25% is just UAEU. The 70% is federal employees (Ministries etc). Logically that means UAEU employees get both. But sometimes logic is not what you find hereabouts.

holbrook · Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Posts: 60

Both UAEU and HCT are part of the same ministry and ultimately run by the same person. All faculty at both colleges are in effect "federal" employees, yet I hear from the grapevine that UAEU faculty are being told that they will get it while HCT employees are being told they won't get it. This despite the fact that UAEU has in theory just gotten a 25% raise. Although I have hear it did not turn up in the paychecks this month as promised. Apparently they will get it backdated next month?!

Either way, don't go around carelessly employing logic when trying to figure this thing out. You might get hurt.

Iamherebecause · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:57 pm Post subject:

OK, the latest I heard from Deep Throat is that for UAEU the 70% raise will be calculated on basic pay, not full salary. This is an interesting one as around 2 years ago salaries for non academic staff were redesigned so they now are on a pay spine with no such thing as basic pay, and I think the same applies to teaching staff at all levels.

burnout · Joined: 09 Nov 2007 Posts: 7

Which institutions will this pay raise apply to?

Will it affect private universities or government universities?

Anyone know?

veiledsentiments · Joined: 20 Feb 2003 Posts: 17644 Location: USA

Of course the private institutions will not implement such a thing until they have to in order to get any teachers.

If I was a betting woman, I'd wager that very few expat teachers will see any of it. Insha'Allah, I will be shown to be jaded and wrong... Cool

And no one will know for sure until it lands in their bank account... or not...

VS

Iamherebecause · Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 9:04 am Post subject:

This raise is ONLY for federal employees, i.e. public sector, national bodies.

I must say I am more interested in seeing what happens to the dollar peg at the moment; I am sure that a pay raise of some sort for federal employees wil come as Sheikh Mohammed wants it to happen, and what he says goes - but it's a matter of time, waiting while they work out 70% of what precisely.

redsoxman · Joined: 30 Apr 2007 Posts: 51

From what I understand it affects all government institutions - what I heard recently is that only the Emiratis are going to get a 70% increase while expatriates may get 40%.

Has anyone else heard this.

I find my salary enough to live on but it is true that this country is much more expensive than I expected. It is fine for single guys like me but probably married teachers and families are struggling from what I hear.

Has anyone got more information about this?