Public employees with low wages will get raises

About 107,000 employees of institutions in the fields of art and culture, medical-sanitary, social assistance, physical culture and sport, science, innovation and others will get wage raises starting June 1, 2012, thanks to amendments to Government’s previous, Info-Prim Neo reports. For wage categories 1-3, which include 38,000 auxiliary workers, wages will be increased by 16% (about 100 lei). The others’ raises will decrease according to the category (4-20). The needed funds are estimated at 105 million lei. Deputy Minister of Labor, Social Protection and Family Sergiu Sainciuc said that wage conditions for 5000 employees of cultural edifices and museums were improved, due to repeated requests from the Ministry of Culture. The solution was to double the premium fund from 8.33% to 16.7% of the means allotted for the remuneration of this category. The salaries of social assistants working in mayor’s offices will growth thanks to the increase by 30% of wage bonuses. Other amendments stipulate the increase of wage bonuses for special conditions of work for the command body of law enforcement structures from 40% to 80% since October 1. For workers of the technical-explosive division of the Ministry of the Interior, the salary bonus for extreme conditions of work and risk will be increased from 25% to 50%. The government also approved a draft law stipulating that the personnel providing technical support and assuring the functioning of courts, prosecutor’s offices, central and local public authorities, will get wages that include all the additional payments stipulated by legislation: the bonus for length of service, for intensity of work and monthly prizes. This category will benefit from prizes for current activity in value of 20% of their function salary. The raises for this category, which includes officers and NCOs of the Customs Police, will generate monthly expenses of 909,000 lei. They will be covered from the allotments for these institutions’ budgets.