Discussions on the new Pay Law are advanced within a working group involving the Chancellery and the Ministry of Finance, with support from the World Bank, and we want a formula comparable to the current Pay Law, where the president has the highest salary, said Labour Minister Florin Manole.
'The discussions are not only under way, they are advanced within a working group with the Chancellery and the Ministry of Finance, with the World Bank acting as a consultant for this project. Yes, we want a formula comparable to the current Pay Law, in which the president has the highest salary, but I do not yet have details to present, we will do so as the project progresses,' Manole said on Thursday at a press conference held at Victoria Governmental Palace.
In this context, he was asked whether one of the scenarios considered for the new Pay Law provides a pay scale from 1 to 8, based on the minimum wage from 1 July, which will increase to 4,325 lei gross, meaning that under such a scale salaries could rise by 25-30 per cent.
'It is correct that one of the scenarios analysed considers a scale from 1 to 8, but I must make an important clarification because it is very necessary. Even if the reference is comparable to the minimum wage in terms of amount, in the next Pay Law there will be no direct correlation, or the index will be a reference index, so to speak, not the minimum wage. This is a way to decouple the Pay Law from any potential, legal, anticipated increases in the minimum wage. Of course, nobody in administration will earn below the minimum wage, because no one in Romania should earn less than the minimum wage and no one does. But, again, the reference will not be the minimum wage but an index comparable to the minimum wage in terms of amount,' Manole explained.
He added that the Ministry of Finance is still working on an analysis of the average salary increase under the new law.
'At this moment we do not have the analysis from Finance on this. The priority has been to reorder the annex hierarchies, because at present, due to hundreds of amendments to the Pay Law, the scales are disordered, and the interest is to reorganise them,' Florin Manole said.
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