Littérature scientifique sur le sujet « Public officers – Salaries, etc – Belgium »

A survey was carried out during the period from July to December 2002 to see comparison between public and private pay structures in Bangladesh. To evaluate the public pay structure 120 respondents of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) were interviewed through semi-structured questionnaire. The respondents were categorized in 8 different categories. Information of their monthly salary, income tax etc. were checked against their pay-bills and income tax information as supplier by the employer. The secondary data on also collected personally by researcher himselves Pay-structure of different organizations, National pay scales and Price indices. It was found that almost all employees including teachers and officers are facing constraints to maintain their families with income from their job. About 65.5% of their expenditure is getting from their salaries. More than 36% of the employees (including teachers and officers) failed to manage their family expenditure with income from job and extra job. National Pay scale 1997 reduced sufficiently the disparity between the highest and the lowest salary to 10:1 whereas in 1991 the ratio was 11.11:1. In private sectors like Pubali Bank Limited (PBL), Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited (IBL) and Uttara Bank Limited (UBL) the disparity between the highest and the lowest salary were found 21.1:1, 25.29:1 and 26:1 respectively. But disparity in NPS does not ensure the equity, fairness and justice to the civil servants or employees because salaries were not sufficient to cover the cost of as well as livelihood. The maximum salary one can draw is TK.23800 when a person is in the highest grade according to NPS 1997. On the other hand, in private organizations one can draw the highest amount of TK. 90500 which is more than 3.80 times of the highest amount drawn as per NPS 1997. House rent of private sectors varies from 65.4% to 104% (including house maintenance) where as in public sectors it varies from 40% to 55% of basic salary. Consequently, the living conditions of the service holders of lower income groups have been drastically reducing. The minimum salary ratio is to be suggested between the highest and the lowest position should be 5:1. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/jsf.v8i1-2.14631 J. Sci. Foundation, 8(1&2): 89-96, June-December 2010

"The study provides the documentation for the first public version of the database Digital Framework for the History of the Austrian Military Border in Transylvania by means of a detailed description and user manual. It includes: a short overview of the historical context of the establishment of the Austrian military border in this province, references to the international and Romanian state of the art, the detailing of primary sources issued by the military environment and starting from which the database was built and the main principles of construction and operation of the latter. The information in the database is extracted from the records of the military and administrative personnel of the Transylvanian border regiments between 1763 and 1850, including monthly staff records, information on salaries, enrollments, transfers, desertions, medical certificates, etc. The lists of conduct of the officers should also be mentioned, each of them including a detailed physical and psychological description of the respective person. The database serves two aims. On the one hand, to boost the use of and access to documents generated by the Austrian military and with this to bring the Romanian historical writing on the military border in Transylvania closer to the primary sources. On the other hand, to complement, for the territory of the former military border, the vital registration data provided by parish registers with social history data that can improve life course reconstruction and analysis. Keywords: Historical databases, Austrian Military Border, Transylvania, Habsburg Monarchy, Military history "

Abstract Background During the terrorist attacks of 22/03/2016 in Brussels, Belgium, hundreds of rescue workers were present or came to the sites to give aid to the victims. However, until now, there is little research about these first responders’ own need for aid and support immediately after their work or later, and about how they experienced that aid. Methods Using half-structured interviews, we collected data from 31 first responders including 4 nurses, 5 soldiers, 7 firefighters, 11 airport police officers and 4 Red Cross volunteers. Interviews were transcribed, coded and analyzed by two researchers. Results Generally, debriefings were organized at hoc, informal and at the day of the event. Sometimes, an additional group conversation was organized in the week or weeks later. Further initiative was left to the rescue workers themselves to find psychosocial aid, whether inside or outside their organization. Because of many contextual factors (macho culture, no sense of normality of reactions on traumatic experiences, (lack of) social support, stigma of psychosocial health, lack of understanding of those who did not experience it...) rescue workers (mostly police officers and soldiers) often did not find the necessary psychosocial aid. Some workers simply accepted that they have changed due to the attacks. Those who did search for psychological help, experience several problems: the type of help, the financial costs, a lack of recognition of the psychosocial problems, etc. Conclusions Psychosocial aid of first responders is often too short-term, ad hoc, and poorly prepared and organized. Awareness of adverse changes in health or personality can come long after the debriefing sessions. Furthermore, the quality of the debriefings is not always up to standard. Main message Psychosocial aid must not only be aimed at the short term, and must be better prepared and organized.

Defence date: 21 April 1999
Examining board: Prof. Jean Blondel (EUI - supervisor) ; Prof. Yves Mény (EUI) ; Prof. Geert Bouckaert (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven) ; Prof. Jos C.N. Raadschelders (University of Oklahoma)
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