I’m a well-educated national aid worker who negotiated my salary up,but it’s still a fraction of my expatriate colleagues pay
Is it hypocritical for an aid agency to arrive to a developing country looking to improve local lives, yet economically discriminate against local staff within their organisation? Or is there a line that separates extremely poor citizens targeted as beneficiaries from the average working citizen? Are their needs, or such as equal treatment in the workplace,irrelevant?Perhaps local staff are seen more as tools to implement aid programmes without the expertise to earn the gigantic decisions. But local staff have knowledge that cannot be learned at any institution and many are highly educated with years of experience in their field, so why don’t they have the salary to match?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com