PM and ministers overseas allowances need to be reduced - Rabuka

The overseas allowances of the Prime Minister and cabinet ministers need to be reduced.

This has been stated by Prime Minister Sitiveni Rabuka while speaking on fijivilage Straight Talk with Vijay Narayan where he confirmed the review will be done soon because even the cabinet ministers are calling for it.

While responding to a question by Sumeet Singh if the Prime Minister is still getting $3,000 a day for overseas trips and allowances, Rabuka says at the moment, it is the same level because it has not been changed.

He says changing that will require the work of the Parliamentary Emoluments Committee and for it to be taken to parliament as an Act to Amend the Emoluments and Allowances.

While responding to a question on the review of the minimum wage, the Prime Minister says they want to know whether employers have implemented what government had promised and the effect on them.

Rabuka says he does not know whether people have reported that the employers have complied and he wants to know what the effect of that on society has been.