“From 2018 until now, I have earned 6 lei of salary. I have about 4200 lei net with all allowances and the highest level of employment. We also have children in university, we have bank installments, we have bills to pay,” said one of the INS officials with whom HotNews spoke on Monday. “We will not provide statistical data necessary for the National Statistical Program and transfer to Eurostat!” – say INS employees.

Now there is a tense atmosphere in the INS. Employees will submit today, through representatives, both to the parliament and to the headquarters of the General Secretariat of the Government, lists with hundreds of signatures and complaints of employees (we are talking about employees of central and regional departments and counties of statistics), not satisfied that this time they were not included in the of the draft order, which provides for an increase in the salaries of some categories of employees of state administration bodies.

Statistics workers repeatedly expressed their dissatisfaction with the management of the institution through spontaneous strikes in the headquarters of the institutions where they work. “President Andrii Tudorel very politely explains to us all the steps he is taking or is going to take, but nothing is happening! We feel that we are being beaten down,” say statisticians with whom HotNews spoke these days.

Even when the courts ruled in favor of the employees, the decisions were implemented late and sometimes erroneously, and people had to go to court again,” some INS officials said.

Many of its own INS specialists preferred to leave the institution due to layoffs or transfers, and several dozen others were denied transfers or secondments. There are services in the INS where only one full-time employee remains in the position out of 8 positions in the organizational structure.

“We also have children who need meditation, we also have the right to a decent life, to an appropriate reward for our work,” say the statisticians.

Being in the first line of complaints, the Alba County Directorate sent 3 claims that the workers have:

1. Establishing the basic salary of civil servants with executive and managerial functions, as well as contract staff in DRS Alba at the level of the central state administration.

2. Provision of a 15% bonus to the official salary for the complexity of the work to civil servants and contractors as part of DRS Alba.

3. Increasing the personnel scheme of the Alba DRS in accordance with the scope of activity and unlocking employment.