Two months after the coming into force of the law imposing a 25% cut to salaries of state employees, the Statistics Institute reveals that incomes of public administration personnel declined by less than 14%. Moreover, in August, salaries of such workers rose by 1.2% against July, the same percentage by which the average net salary in the overall economy fell.
At the same time, in the healthcare system and the education system, which also include private sector employees (which should not have seen salary declines for these two months), the reduction of the average salary amounted to 20% and 27.3% respectively.
The granting of holiday bonuses and the fact that there are public sector employees with incomes close to the minimum salary in the economy (600 RON in gross amount) - for which the 25% cut was not applicable - are the main reasons for which the salaries of state employees are not reflected in the statistics, these are the explanations given by the Statistics Institute. Although the progression of personnel spending, as recorded with the Finance Ministry, reveals a decline of over 25% in personnel spending against the similar period of last year, some of the public institutions have quite clearly left their salary budgets untouched.
Two months after the coming into force of the law imposing a 25% cut to salaries of state employees, the Statistics Institute reveals that incomes of public administration personnel declined by less than 14%. Moreover, in August, salaries of such workers rose by 1.2% against July, the same percentage by which the average net salary in the overall economy fell.
At the same time, in the healthcare system and the education system, which also include private sector employees (which should not have seen salary declines for these two months), the reduction of the average salary amounted to 20%
