Public sector salaries to ‘increase by 15 percent’

Basic public sector salaries will increase in 2011 by 15 percent compared to October level.

The framework law on unitary wage and the public sector salary bill for 2011 have been adopted by the government.

The bill states that the government suggests a 670 lei minimum wage for 2011, from 600 lei.

The two bills will be sent to Parliament to set the calendar of the procedure for assuming responsibility.

Military personnel, policemen and prison employees with special status will receive increased wages.

Thus, a higher level of contributions to the social security system, set through the public pension bill, should not lead to a lower or higher net monthly income for this personnel category.

Public sector employees will not receive bonuses, meal, gift or vacation vouchers next year either and overtime will be rewarded with days off instead of extra pay.

The increase will consider incentives

Starting January 1st, civil servants that receive incentives will profit from an increase by 15 percent of base salary, plus an incentive average of October 2010, Minister of Labour, Ioan Botiş, said.

‘The October basic salary is considered, with an index rate of 15 percent. After considering the increase, we add the October incentive average per position and per credit accountant’ said the labour minister.

He mentioned that incentives were given for previous months in October, including the Ministry of Public Finance or the Ministry of Labour, and, in the case of the Ministry of Labour, the incentives for October were 0.3 percent.

Minister of Labour stated that the basic salary incentive average could not have been added to the 15 percent increase of the sum, because the law for implementing the public sector unitary salary states that this is possible for basic salary only.


Translated by Ciocănel Tudor
MA Student, MTTLC, Bucharest University