More than 5,000 employees in state-run companies have gross salaries of over 8,000 RON per month, but the Government did not take into account, in its talks with the IMF, the savings that could be made by adjusting salaries in this sector.
Another 6,000 employees of the administration are paid more than 8,000 RON per month, but such peaks are not found in fields such as healthcare and education, only among central and local bureaucrats.
In the absence of a plan thought out in good time, the Government took the easy way out by adjusting the salaries it can readily control as a whole and the pensions, avoiding to step into the mine-filled legal territory of employment contracts in the state-run companies. The Boc Cabinet estimates to cut the personnel spending in the budget-paid sector by 5.39 billion RON, accounting for 1.06% of GDP in the second half, as a result of the 25% salary cut enforced on the 1st of June. At the same time, the Government expects to see social security expenses down 5.2 billion RON (1% of the GDP), as a result of the 15% cut in pensions and other social security payments.
Information about the salaries of more than 250,000 budget-paid employees working in the military, the police force, services and in state-run companies is missing from the statistics that the Finance Ministry sent to the unions before the talks with the Economic and Social Council on the 25% salary cut in the budget-paid sector. A quick calculation shows the state is spending some 6 billion RON a year on public forces alone.
More than 5,000 employees in state-run companies have gross salaries of over 8,000 RON per month, but the Government did not take into account, in its talks with the IMF, the savings that could be made by adjusting salaries in this sector.
Another 6,000 employees of the administration are paid more than 8,000 RON per month,
