{"id":42451,"date":"2023-08-22T12:54:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T12:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/unity-state-parliament-passes-emoluments-act"},"modified":"2023-08-22T13:00:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T13:00:14","slug":"unity-state-parliament-passes-emoluments-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/unity-state-parliament-passes-emoluments-act","title":{"rendered":"Unity State Parliament passes Emoluments Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>The Transitional Legislative Assembly in Unity State on Monday passed the Emolument Act (Amendment) Bill 2023 into law opening the way for state parliamentarians to get their salaries.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Mawich, the chairperson of the information committee in the Unity State parliament, said the new law increased the salary of legislators from SSP 85,000 to 500,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Emolument Act will enhance our salaries and guide the payment of parliamentarians,\u201d he said. \u201cThe increment of the salary to SSP 500,000 will help the lawmakers do their work and also initiate developments in their constituencies and homes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For his part, William Gatluak, the chairperson of the finance committee in the state parliament, confirmed that the house passed the law which increased their pay.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe agreed as the Unity State legislature to pass the Emolument Act that will increase our salaries to SSP 500,000 from 85,000,\u201d he said. \u201cThe law will now be sent to the office of Governor Joseph Manytuil Wejang so that he can sign it into law. If the governor does not give us feedback within 30 days, it will become law.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have a law guiding you, your activities will definitely be official,\u201d Gatluak added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\">South-Sudan<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. The Transitional Legislative Assembly in Unity State on Monday passed the Emolument Act (Amendment) Bill 2023 into law opening the way for state parliamentarians to get their salaries. Stephen Mawich, the chairperson of the information committee in the Unity State parliament, said the new law increased the salary of legislators from SSP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":42450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[234,265,233],"class_list":["post-42451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Unity State Parliament passes Emoluments Act - South Sudan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Transitional Legislative Assembly in Unity State on Monday passed the Emolument Act (Amendment) Bill 2023 into law o ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/unity-state-parliament-passes-emoluments-act\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Unity State Parliament passes Emoluments Act\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Transitional Legislative Assembly in Unity State on Monday passed the Emolument Act (Amendment) Bill 2023 into law o ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/unity-state-parliament-passes-emoluments-act\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Sudan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-08-22T12:54:11+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-22T13:00:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/08\/sm_1692696441.021232.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"491\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/unity-state-parliament-passes-emoluments-act#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/unity-state-parliament-passes-emoluments-act\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Unity State Parliament passes Emoluments Act\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-08-22T12:54:11+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-08-22T13:00:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/unity-state-parliament-passes-emoluments-act\"},\"wordCount\":207,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/unity-state-parliament-passes-emoluments-act#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/08\/sm_1692696441.021232.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Sudan\",\"South-Sudan\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/unity-state-parliament-passes-emoluments-act#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/unity-state-parliament-passes-emoluments-act\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/unity-state-parliament-passes-emoluments-act\",\"name\":\"Unity State Parliament passes Emoluments Act - 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