The Constitutional Court (CC) on September 10 will examine a challenge filed by the Supreme Court of Justice concerning the Law on the Salary System for Civil Servants. According to the Supreme Court of Justice, last year Parliament adopted higher pay grades for the employees of the legislature’s secretariat, the staff of the President of Moldova and the State Chancellery than those for similar posts within the secretariat of the Supreme Court and of the Supreme Council of Magistrates, IPN reports.
Also, the lawmakers approved higher pay grades for functionaries of the central staff of ministries than those for functionaries of secretariats of courts of appeal, and higher pay grades for public posts within the staff of district heads and subdivisions of district councils than those set for functionaries of courts of law.
The challenge says the discrepancy in the salaries of functionaries reveals not only the lack of balance and equality in the work of the state powers, but also evident discrimination against the personnel that ensures the functionality of the judicial power. When adopting the Law on the Salary System for Civil Servants and setting obviously lower salaries for the employees of the judicial system, Parliament didn’t take into account the own commitments according to which the independence of justice represents a precondition for increasing the efficiency of the judiciary.
