As many as 170,000 jobs created in Moldova in last three years

Chisinau, 17 January /MOLDPRES/ - As many as 170,000 jobs have been created in Moldova in the last three years, according to reports by economic agents. Prime Minister Pavel Filip made public data to this effect when presenting the report on the government’s three-year work today.

„We have a constant growth on most sectors, which will continue. We came to rule in a complicated period and we quickly understood that we must start working, that we should offer to people deeds and changes which they are to feel. We have managed to increase the people’s incomes through changes and reforms which brought fairness,” PM Pavel Filip said.  

The prime minister noted that, as a result of the reform of the wage payment in the public sector, beginning with 1 December 2018, the salaries of the public sector employees had grown and there is no employee having a salary lower than 2,000 lei or lower than he/she had before the reform. “The people will receive increased salaries now in January and the money actually got will put an end to speculations on this subject,” the prime minister specified. The official gave also some examples. According to Filip, in the last three years, the salaries in the education sector grew by 84 per cent, from 3,600 lei to up to 7,000 lei and the medical sector employees have salaries by 83 per cent higher. At the same time, the salaries of the directors of community centres have tripled.    

The PM referred also to the pensions’ reform, which, according to him, brought higher pensions. Pavel Filip said that, in the last three years, the average pension had increased by 50 per cent. “Starting from 1 January this year, the pension grew by ten per cent for half a million of elderly people; the average pension reached almost 1,800 lei from a bit more than 1,000 lei, as it has been so far. At the same time, since early 2019, the process of recalculation of the pension for those working after retirement was started. The pensions’ indexation will come next and calculations show us that the pensions will even double for some people,” Filip added.    

The Filip government was sworn in office in January 2016.