​The government will approve a salary increase in the state system on Friday, an increase in accordance with budgetary possibilities and taking into account the discussions held with social partners, Prime Minister Nicolae Chuke announced at the beginning of the government meeting.

The Minister of Labor told how much wages will increase.

• “In practice, it is about providing a quarter of the existing wage gap and the wage level that was supposed to be reached according to law 153 in 2022,” – said Minister of Labor Marius Budai.

At the start of the government meeting, Prime Minister Chuke also announced that “a resolution will be adopted by which we aim to facilitate investors’ access to financing by increasing the total guarantee limit for the SME Invest Plus program by more than 10 billion lei. “

Regarding this topic, the Minister of Finance, Adrian Cachiu, said that the decision to supplement this program came as a result of the success of this program and discussions with economic operators to secure financing also for the second half of this year.

• “This money will be used for investments, especially in the production and processing sphere. They will also help the construction sector, where we need to recover from the beginning of the year, which saw a number of market distortions due to rising prices of building materials. This is the support that the state provides to the economy, which will definitely bring positive results in terms of GDP and jobs.” – said the Minister of Finance.

Starting this month, the salaries of state employees will increase and the rules for transferring at will to a public position will change

​All state employees who have not yet reached the salary provided for by the 2022 grid The salary law will receive, starting from August this year, a quarter of the difference between the amount provided for in this table and the salary when paid, according to the draft of the emergency order, which will be submitted to the government on Friday. With another order, the executive power wants to solve the problems that arose as a result of the decision to suspend work in the civil service from July 1, 2022.

This GEO project is about increase by a quarter of official salaries of state employees This month, the Department of Labor announced a public hearing after the legislation was initially targeted salary increase for state employees up to 50%.

In the explanatory note to the GPI project, which was included in the Government’s agenda on Friday, it is stated that “the rights to remuneration of public sector employees during the last 2 years have not been increased as a result of fiscal and budgetary measures adopted in the current economic context, with the exception of personnel in the field of health care and education”.

• “The crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has determined the adoption of sanitary and economic measures at the national level, which have created imbalances at the level of macroeconomic indicators, and in the absence of concrete and quick measures, the relevant categories of people will become even more vulnerable to this extraordinary resolution, due to the decrease in purchasing power capacity, which will significantly affect the standard of living of the population and increase the risk of extreme impoverishment.” it is shown in the document.

As a result, with the help of the draft emergency decree, it is proposed to introduce the following provisions into Article I of the government’s emergency decree No. 130/2021 regarding some fiscal and budgetary measures (…)

• granting, as an exception to the provisions of clause (1), starting from August 2022, a quarter of the difference between the basic salary provided for by the Framework Law No. 153/2017, with subsequent amendments and additions, for 2022 and December 2021.,
• awards, starting in August 2022, for newly recruited staff, for staff appointed/recruited in the same institution/government body for positions of the same type, including for staff promoted in positions or professional ranks/grades, and for personnel who are promoted to the corresponding gradation of seniority for the period January-July 2022 in the amount of one-fourth of the difference between the basic salary provided for by the Framework Law No. 153/2017, with subsequent amendments and additions, for 2022 and that of July 2022.

The explanatory note does not indicate the impact on the budget, stating only that “the application of the provisions will be carried out with the inclusion of budget-approved personnel costs for each main loan officer.”