Good afternoon. News that the government plans to reduce the so-called 13th salary payment (a conventional, but not legally required, bonus payment of an extra month's salary paid in December) to public sector workers by two-thirds suggests that ministers want to avoid inflicting a last-minute disappointment on their workforce.
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Last year, amid a cash shortage, the government sought to cancel the salary bonus completely, but a backlash against this forced it to back down. In the end, half the bonus was paid, but it had to be done in two instalments due to lack of money.
