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The Seimas Chancellery massively accepts applications from people employed a month or a half ago to increase the official salary coefficient, that is, their salaries.
According to preliminary estimates, the salaries of some employees will increase by several hundred euros a month.
Opened the lock
On January 6 and 20, the Seimas Board annulled its previous decisions, which established a specific salary coefficient for public officials of political trust: parliamentary assistants, advisers, faction rapporteurs, advisers to the vice president of the Seimas and the leader of the opposition .
From these coefficients the amount of the official salary is calculated.
The annulled decisions established that the official salary coefficient of the faction rapporteurs is 8.3, the sum of the positions of the advisers of the Vice Presidents of the Seimas is 14 and the sum of the positions of the three assistant members of the Seimas and advisers. it cannot exceed 21.8.
When they were revoked, the statutory wage coefficients remained in force and their maximum limit is much higher than the previous coefficients.
For example, according to the decision of the Board, the official salary of the vice president of the Seimas was 2,478 euros, and now it is possible to increase it to 3,186 euros per month without taxes. The salary of a political group speaker can range between 1469 and 2389 euros.
Requests agreed with the elders of the Seimas factions to increase the salaries of the rapporteurs of the Seimas faction to the coefficient of 9.5 and requests agreed with the vice presidents of the Seimas to increase the salaries of the deputies of the Seimas have already been submitted. Seimas deputies to the coefficient of 16.5, “BNS was informed by the Seimas Press Service.
Multiplying these coefficients by the base salary of € 177 shows that the salaries of these politically exposed civil servants will increase by € 185 and € 442, respectively, before tax.
Likewise, the salaries of parliamentary assistants and advisers will be increased.
For all of them, a supplement for work in the public function is added to the official salary. Its size depends on the size of the official salary: the higher it is, the stronger the supplement.
Requests are flying
According to data from the Seimas Chancellery, in a couple of weeks 134 presentations were received from Seimas members to their assistants and advisers due to the new salary coefficients.
“The petition generally states that the coefficient for a post must be increased to the maximum allowable coefficient of 12,” parliament informed BNS in response.
Ten members of the Seimas wrote proposals to increase the coefficients, but did not use the full “basket” allowed.
Furthermore, parliamentary assistants are exempt from the State Council Law and are allowed to work more than one position, but not more than one and a half. More than 100 people took advantage of this opportunity.
According to data from the Seimas Chancellery, the average of its coefficients is 13.59, or 2405 euros per month before taxes.
Supported by both the ruler and the opposition
According to estimates from the Seimas Chancellery, this massive increase in salaries for political assistants will require an additional 2 million LTL this year. euros.
The salary fund of the political trustees of the Seimas this year amounts to 10.24 million. euros.
To such an extent, there was an opportunity to increase the salaries of its assistant members of the Seimas when, in December of last year, when approving the 2021 budget, they voted to allocate an additional 1,584 million. euros for salary.
Despite government opposition, both the new rulers and the opposition pressed the buttons behind this proposal by liberal Richard Yushka.
After the vote, Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė declared that “such cynicism probably did not yet exist in this country.”
At that time, the Seimas members were not convinced by the words of Finance Minister Gintarė Skaistė that in the draft budget presented by the Government, an additional 926 thousand LTL had already been allocated for the salaries of Seimas officials. for personal political confidence and career. euros.
Adding additional allocations to this amount, the Seimas Chancellery salary fund is 2.51 million higher this year. than last year, and it will be almost entirely for the salaries of members of political teams.
Instead of a higher salary, thank you
The increase in salaries for members of political teams is a matter of concern for officials working at the Seimas Chancellery, as there is no more than 10 percent left to increase their salaries this year. additional funds.
In January, evaluations of the work of the employees of the Seimas Chancellery are being carried out.
“When that January arrives and evaluations are made, for ten years the same rhetoric has been used, it is said: not to empathize because there are no funds. And it goes up very little, for example, the coefficient of 0.5, it is about 60 euros with taxes ”, said Mindaugas Skačkauskas, president of the Labor Council of the Seimas Chancellery.
He, together with the presidents of the unions operating in parliament, appealed to the Seimas Board to draw attention to the situation.
According to M. Skačkauskas, employees who receive a “very good” rating are more likely to receive gratitude than salary increases.
“Certainly, an unbearable salary or other incentives provided in the Civil Service Law are offered: a thank you, a nominal gift or additional days off. It demotivates a large part of the employees and staff when a manager evaluates a job very well, It says: you are a great person, you worked well, you will have five days off. However, considering that many of our collaborators have 20 years of service, that license is enough, it is even difficult to use it, “the head of the Labor Council told BNS.
He noted that the official salary coefficients are also lower for people who work at Seimas than for other employees who occupy the same position.
“When the new version of the Civil Service Law came into force, the coefficients of political trust of public officials, not only in the Seimas, but also in other institutions, increased significantly. For example, the advisers to the vice-presidents of the Seimas had a coefficient of 14, and there are about a hundred advisers in the Chancellery of the Seimas, that is, every second official, none of whom has one, although they have been working for 30 years. And it doesn’t, because it doesn’t get a coefficient increase during the evaluations, “said M. Skačkauskas.
“It just came to our knowledge then. It would seem that the Seimas Chancellery should be the most attractive institution of the civil service compared to ministries and other institutions, but it often happens that even the institutions that are accountable to the Seimas have coefficients higher than our employees, ”he said.
Attendees deserve higher salaries
Conservative Parliament Vice President responsible for the Seimas Chancellery, Paulius Saudargas, told BNS that he had already asked his team members to increase their salaries.
“Of course. People really work hard, they earn a lot more than they make. They really are worth a lot,” he said.
According to the MP, politically trusted employees do not count the working hours and workload of a member of the Seimas while they work.
Both he and Andrius Mazuronis, vice president of the Seimas “employee” of the Seimas, emphasized that the Seimas, when allocating additional funds to the Foreign Ministry in December, indicated that they should be foreseen to increase the salaries of employees of political confidence.
“The board is only implementing the will of the Seimas, which it expressed in December,” A. Mazuronis told BNS.
Darbietis has also already offered higher salary ratios to his team members and expected them to receive an additional € 200.
Both P. Saudargas and A. Mazuronis argued that some coefficients of political confidence in the Seimas had previously been subject to coefficients lower than those provided by law, so this increase was necessary.
“Now, for the first time, they are selling as they should,” Saudargas said.
“The salary of a deputy member of the Seimas in the hands is 650-700 euros. This is not the amount for which you could find a person to write, ”said A. Mazuronis.
According to P. Saudargas, several hundred thousand euros of the additional couple of million will remain to increase the salaries of the employees of the Seimas Chancellery.
“I agree that they also need to increase compared to the employees of the ministries, their coefficients are lower, although the Seimas, as the main institution, should have qualified employees to work here as well,” P. Saudargas told BNS.
A. Mazuronis stated that the Seimas Board will examine in detail how much the employees of the parliament actually earn.
“The Seimas Chancellery receives not only an official salary, but also subsidies. Apparently, we should be honest to the maximum and look not only at the average odds, but also at the final amount, which is paid at the end of the month, “he said.
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