The Cabinet on Tuesday approved the Civil Service Commission’s proposal to raise salaries of junior level government officials and state employees by 10% for two years to offset rising living costs.

Some 100 health officials gathered outside the Public Health Ministry’s headquarters in Nonthaburi province to demand that their service during the fiscal years of 2000 to 2003 be included in calculating their pensions and that their salaries be adjusted so they are more equal and fair.