Municipal Workers to receive allowances soon, says Interior Minister

Algiers- Municipal workers will receive their grants and compensations, and remnants of wages increase as well, retroactively since January 2008, Interior Minister Dahou Ould Kablia said on Wednesday.

Previously, to show their lingering discontent at their pay and job security prospects, municipal workers throughout Algeria have decided to launch a fresh nationwide strike in order to press ahead for their long-neglected socio-professional claims.

Half a million workers in 1,451 communes today again went on strike to demand a new allowances scheme and the retention of the established retirement scheme, according to organizers from the National Autonomous Union of Public Administration Personnel (SNAPAP).

Last December, the government ended an early retirement plan that allowed workers to draw a pension after 32 years of service.