Well, it has not been quiet. An article was tactically placed in the Gulf News Business part three days ago: It said that the companies in the UAE seemed to be "reluctant" to give their employees a raise although it would be deserved. Apparently they don't want a racing spiral to erode their ever mounting profits.
Now we know that when it goes for a race to the bottom for UAE workers, EK employees are set equal to all other UAE employees and certainly not part of the pampered and teflon coated government employees.
But when it goes for a race to the top for UAE workforce, EK employees then are suddenly semi-government workers and not to participate in this hike and, mind you, not subject to UAE labor law!!
Huge increases for government employees however then push us down to normal UAE workers again, and so on and so forth .....
The article seemed to me to prepare us that there will be no increase. They will up the package for newbees, but not for us.