No state employee to have lower salary than today, following wage reform

Chisinau, 10 November /MOLDPRES/- During a new meeting of the press club of the government, the topic of salary reform in the budgetary sector was debated, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.

Minister of Finance Octavian Armasu denied press information that, following the wage reform, some categories of public servants will have lower wages than today. He said that this law sets a new salary scale, reducing the discrepancy from 33 units to 15, between the lowest and the highest salary existing today. Thus, state employees now receiving higher salaries than those established in the new grid will have a lower base salary, but will receive more compensation that their income is the same as today. At the same time, people now receiving the lowest wages will now have a higher basic salary, which will bring them a more significant income.

“Once the implementation of the law, no one will lose in salary and will not have a salary less than 2,000 lei. The salary will only increase. We now have a mechanism that will allow us every year the salary to be revised to increase at least according to the inflation rate,” he said.

Other aspects of the Law on the unitary pay system in the budgetary sector, as well as of the tax reform have been clarified. At the same time, some provisions of the state budget law for 2019, recently approved by the cabinet of ministers, were also discussed.

In this context, the Minister of Finance noted that this law fully corresponds to the government's priorities set in early 2018. "The budget law 2019 provides for the continuation of infrastructure projects by allocating funds to the Road Fund and the project Good Roads for Moldova. We are also launching new projects in education and justice," Octavian Armasu said.