Moldovan parliament adopts single system of wage payment in budgetary sector

Chisinau, 23 November /MOLDPRES/ - The parliament adopted the single system of wage payment in the budgetary sector in the final reading today.  

According to the law’s authors, the reform will help create a transparent and attractive salary system, able to remunerate the professional performance of employees in each activity sector. The document’s goal is to create a fair system and to increase the fixed part of the salaries.   

The new law regulates the structure of the wage payment system, salary rights and the way the payment is established. Thus, employees will be remunerated based on the system consisting of grades and wage payment stages. The concept of the reform sees that the salary will be made up of a fixed part and a variable one. The variable part will depend on the performances of the employee and the specific aspects of the work.  

The law guarantees full preservation of the salary, if, according to the new wage payment rules, a lower salary is set for the employee than earlier. Thus, the employees will preserve the incomes they have at present. At the same time, following the implementation of the reform, none of the budgetary sector employees will have a salary lower than the subsistence minimum of 2,000 lei and the difference between the first stage of wage payment and the last one will be of 15 stages and not 33, as it is at present.

The salaries will be increased for the budgetary employees in all sectors, including education, health and social assistance. The cost of the project’s implementation for 2019-2021 is of 3.9 billion lei. By 2021, decision-makers plan about 30-per cent growth of the average monthly salary for employees from institutions financed from the state budget and a 55-per cent increase for employees from institutions financed from local budgets.    

The new system will enter into force on 1 December 2018.