At a bare minimum, no government employees should get a paycheck when lockdown is in effect.
I just watched a video on Rumble. A California restaurant owner blocked in a health inspector reasoning that if the restaurant owner can’t work, neither can the health inspector.
The Health department told him that people couldn’t eat food outdoors on city owned benches.
The cops stupidly said “we all have jobs to do.” The restaurant owner said he and his people wanted to work.
Absolutely unforgivable.
In Singapore, one of the most successful countries in the world, the pay of senior government office holders and bureaucrats is pegged to the pay in the private sector. If private incomes go up then so does the pay of those in government. Conversely, if there is an economic contraction and private salaries go down then so does that of those in government. The public sector weasel bureaucrats therefore have 'skin in the game'.
"To justify the government's practice of matching public sector salaries with private sector salaries, a White Paper on “Competitive Salaries for Competent and Honest Government” was presented to Parliament on 21 October 1994 to justify the pegging of the salaries of ministers and senior civil servants to the average salaries of the top four earners in the six private sector professions of accounting, banking, engineering, law, local manufacturing companies and MNCs. The adoption of the long-term formula suggested in the White Paper removed the need to justify the salaries of ministers and senior civil servants “from scratch with each salary revision”, and also ensured the building of “an efficient public service and a competent and honest political leadership, which have been vital for Singapore's prosperity and success” (Republic of Singapore, 1994, pp. 7-12, 18).
In December 2007, the Public Service Division (PSD) announced that the salaries of ministers and senior civil servants would be increased from 4 to 21 per cent from January 2008. On 24 November 2008, the PSD indicated that their salaries would be decreased by 19 per cent in 2009 because of the economic recession. Consequently, the president's annual salary was reduced from S$3.87m to S$3.14m and the prime minister's annual salary was also reduced from S$3.76m to S$3.04m from 2008 to 2009 (Quah, 2010, p. 116). However, the economy recovered in 2010 and the salaries of ministers and senior civil servants were revised upwards. Even though the PAP won 81 of the 87 parliamentary seats in the May 2011 general election, the percentage of votes captured declined to 60.1 from 66.6 per cent in the May 2006 general election.
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/PAP-06-2018-002/full/html