The National Personnel Authority will soon recommend a reduction in winter bonuses for national civil servants, which is likely to lead to the largest contraction ever in their annual bonuses, sources said.
The step is expected to result in a cut of 0.35 month’s worth of salary, the largest yearly reduction since the authority recommended a 0.3 month cut in fiscal 1999.
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