Prime Minister Marcel Cholaku said Thursday night, ahead of a meeting to approve the state budget for 2024, that the minimum wage will be 3,700 lei from July 1, but that the 200 lei allowance will be exempt from taxes on the minimum gross wage. saved

Marcel CholakuPhoto: Agerpres

“Our offer is 3,700 lei from July 1 to provide 6 months of predictability for the business environment. Until then, we keep a facility of 200 lei tax-exempt from the minimum gross salary,” added Marcel Čolaku.

According to him, this budget, “voted by the parliament before Christmas, will allow investing unprecedented sums in 2024 to build the future of Romania.”

On Tuesday, representatives of the government, trade unions and employers held consultations on raising the minimum basic wage in the country, the government proposes to raise it to the level of 3,700 lei starting July 1, 2024, including for workers in agriculture and the food industry, and maintaining the level of 4,582 lei for workers construction industry.

On the other hand, employers proposed to increase to 3,500 lei in July 2024 and then to 3,700 lei in January 2025.

“Today we proposed to the government in the Tripartite National Council together with CNIPMMR that the minimum wage should increase to 3,500 lei in July 2024 and then to 3,700 lei in January 2025, after which we will enter into a new negotiation mechanism, as we did through PNRR,” explained Radu Burnete, executive director of the Confederation of Concordia Employers.

Burnete says that at least 12 months of predictability is needed and that both the average and minimum wages in Romania are currently moving above inflation over the past two years.

“The Minister of Finance presented us with the basic data for the construction of the budget, we are waiting for the draft budget, as the Government proposes to adopt it. I explained during the meeting that it is important for the business environment that the government proposes a realistic budget, especially in terms of revenue as well as expenditure. It would be unacceptable to repeat this year’s scenario, when in the middle of the year we found that the deficit was several percent higher than planned in the budget,” added the executive director of the Confederation of Concordia Employers.

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