The salaries of directors of public institutions will be at most three times higher than the average salary of employees. A bill providing this was put forward by the Ministry of Labor, Social Protection and Family. Currently, the director’s salary can vary from a thrice higher monthly salary to a fivefold higher monthly salary at the institution, IPN reports.

The proposed amendment refers to the managers of public authorities and institutions, including of those with the status of state-owned enterprise, regulatory, certification, supervision, monitoring or inspection authorities, nonprofit institutions and institutions with financial autonomy. For example, if the average salary at the institution is 12,500 lei, the highest salary of the manager can be 37,500 lei (12500x3). If the average salary is 3,500 lei, the highest salary can be 10,500 lei, which is similar to the salary of the Deputy Prime Minister.

The initiators of the bill argued that the mentioned institutions employ only highly-qualified specialists such as experts and inspectors who have a high salary and paying a salary that is five times higher to the manager is not reasonable.

The Ministry of Labor also suggested limiting the monthly bonuses for representatives of the state in executive bodies from three official minimal salaries to one salary. The Audit Office established that some of the persons with the status of representative of the state in executive bodies of state-owned enterprises or member of the board of joint stock companies earn incomes that exceed considerably the average monthly salary at the main job. For example, a division head at the Ministry, with an average monthly salary at the main job of 8,800 lei in 2014, earned 29,600 lei on average a month when serving as the representative of the state.