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The Interior Ministry Employees Union (MIA) refuses to accept the promised 15% increase in the sector’s basic salaries, BTA reported.
“The union federation of employees of the Ministry of the Interior will consider before the weekend how they will continue their actions to achieve the requested increase in the salaries of employees of the Ministry of the Interior by 30 percent,” the president of the Ministry of the Interior told the media. board of directors of the Valentin union. Popov.
Earlier today it was clear that an agreement was reached for an increase of 15% in the salaries of the police, and for some of them with a class of time served and subsidies the percentage can reach 20. This happened after a meeting of the Council of Social Alliance in the Ministry of the Interior. In it, the political leadership and the unions discussed salaries in the ministry, BNT reported.
“At the Social Association Council meeting we presented the current situation and discussed all urgent issues,” Interior Minister Hristo Terziiski told reporters, Nova TV reported.
“We did not agree on the salaries, we simply presented the current situation, what the ministry has indicated as a budget, the conversations that are being carried out in the Ministry of Finance and with the parliamentarians who can modify the Budget Law of the State so that to achieve a 15% increase in the base salary of all employees of the Ministry of the Interior. ”Terziiski added that if the situation is good, at the first possible moment we can talk about an increase in salaries from by 2021, more than 15 percent.
According to him, in monetary terms, this is an increase of BGN 231.5 million in the budget of the “Personnel” section for all employees. “We discussed that this year some other economic items have increased, such as available time and night work, not much, but it is still in favor of all employees who work in shifts or are available at night,” added the minister. inland.
The interior minister also said he did not know whether the unions would protest.
The increase in wages in the sector came after police protests in the country. The unions of the Ministry of the Interior system demanded a 30% increase in salaries, as expected for the other sectors in the front line of the fight against Kovid-19.
One of the protests was the installation of a tent camp next to the National Assembly and the display of an exhibition of photographs of police officers working in the context of the Covid crisis. The reason for the discontent, according to the Board of Directors of the Union Federation of Employees of the Ministry of the Interior, is the underestimation of the work of employees of the Ministry of the Interior and their contribution to the fight against the epidemic and the consequences of the pandemic.
Prime Minister Boyko Borissov announced that there will be an increase in their salaries next year, which will be less, but it will be for everyone. However, the promise of additional rewards did not ease tensions. Employees of the Interior Ministry insisted that their work be recognized as such in the front line.
