On Friday, the government adopted an emergency resolution for all state employees who have not yet reached the size of the official salary provided for by the tariff scale of the Law on Salaries for 2022, and who will be paid a quarter of the difference between the stipulated wage and salary from August of this year, Minister of Labor Marius Budai announced on Friday , which takes into account this scale and salaries.

• “In general, the increase will be about 150 lei per employee, and there are employees who will receive even less, and in addition to medical staff, who, as we already know, are at the level of 2022, there are also employees at the level of ministries, who have already reached the threshold of 2022, and their salaries will not be increased,” said Minister of Labor Marius Budai at the end of the government meeting on Friday.

Budai noted that these expenses will be made within the framework of the budget already approved at the beginning of this year.

• “The impact on the budget is about 2.1 billion lei, but this is done taking into account already approved budget expenditures. You know that recruitment for the second half of 2022 is blocked, at the beginning of the year these vacancies were included in the budget, so we have savings and these costs can be covered,” said the minister.

Answering the question of how many people will benefit from the salary increase, the minister said:

• “About 1 million, because from the 1.2 million state employees, we have to subtract the medical staff and those who are on the salary level from 2022,” the minister said.

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 paragraph (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.”

SEE DRAFT GEO AND KEYNOTE HERE