PA public employees get paid 80% of their November salaries

Headline: “The [PA public] employees’ salaries will be paid today at a rate of 80% in addition to 5% of the debts”

“Yesterday [Dec. 5, 2022], the [PA] Ministry of Finance announced that the November [2022] salaries of the [PA] public employees will be paid today, Tuesday. In a press release, the ministry explained that 80% of the salary will be paid to all the employees, and no less than 2,000 [Israeli] shekels (approx. $580 -Ed.).

It added that 5% of the salary money to which [the employees] are eligible, which has accumulated up until Nov. 30, 2022, will be paid.

It also emphasized that the rest of the money to which the employees are eligible is tantamount to a debt to them, and that it will be paid when this becomes financially possible.”

[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Dec. 6, 2022]