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Dragoș Pîslaru, interim minister of European Investments and Projects Photo: Facebook/Dragoș Pîslaru
The Ministry of Labor is to present the draft of the new law on the remuneration of personnel paid from public funds. According to some information that has already appeared in the public space, in the new system, the salary of each budget officer will no longer be an arbitrary fixed amount, but will be calculated by multiplying a coefficient (depending on the importance of the position) with a reference value.
Regarding the gross reference value, there would be two options on the table of the interim government: 4,325 lei or 4,100 lei, according to the information obtained by Cotidianul.ro.
Also, if the current grid provides points from 1 to 12, the new grid will include points from 1 to 8.
How does this new grid change politicians’ salaries?
No matter what the gross reference value will be, the president, the ministers, but also the parliamentarians will come out on top.
For example, the president Nicușor Dan would benefit from a gross salary of 34,600 lei, considering that the position of president is assigned the highest coefficient, i.e. 8. Thus, at the reference value of 4,325 lei, Nicușor Dan would receive 20,241 lei monthly, while at a reference value of 4,100 lei, Nicușor Dan would receive every month 19,188 lei net. Both scenarios foresee a higher salary than the current one, i.e. 14,500 lei net. Even in the smaller reference version, the salary increase would be 32%.
The same calculation comes out in favor of the prime minister, the presidents of the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies, but also all parliamentarians, considering that they are assigned the highest value coefficients.
Romania must adopt a new public sector wage law by the end of August, as it is a mandatory milestone in PNRR. If it does not adopt it, the country risks losing 700 million euros from European funds.
What do the unions say?
The National Union of Policemen and Contract Personnel categorically rejects a new salary law, until the full application of Framework Law no. 153/2017 and says that he will block its implementation by all legal means.
“The state has been failing, for years, to respect its own legal obligations towards the law enforcement structures. Unfortunately, even now, the “Defense, Public Order and National Security” occupational family is being systematically transformed into a victim of the “financial constraints” invoked by the decision-makers. For inclusion in the salary envelope, the salary ratio between the lowest basic salary and the highest basic salary, balance of position/salary, employment allowance, monthly allowance, is 1 to 8, compared to 1 to 12 in the current law; practically, this could lead to a “compression” of the net salary amount for each employee”, the statement sent by the organization states.
