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On Tuesday, Raluca Turcan, Minister of Labor and Social Protection proposed to the representatives of the National Trade Union Confederation “Cartel ALFA”, to participate in January in consultations with the social partners to establish, within six months, a mechanism for calculating increases wages. at least, according to a statement issued by the corresponding ministry.
Until mid-January, we will establish a meeting schedule and then we will propose a moratorium through which, after six months, an agreement is reached between unions, employers, and the Government, so that the calculation of the minimum wage has a clear and sustainable formula. I want to make as many consultations as we need in six months to have a framework with everything that raising the minimum wage means, so that we can come up with a predictable and sustainable formula that ultimately leads to an increase in the quality of life ”, said the Minister of Job. , quoted in the statement.
The request of the Minister of Labor comes in the context in which several dozen members of the CNS “Cartel ALFA” picketed, on Tuesday, at the headquarters of the Ministry of Labor, as a sign of protest against the Government’s decision to increase the gross minimum wage from 2,230 lei to 2,300 lei. . The union demands that the gross minimum wage be increased to the value of 2,400 lei.
On this issue, during the meeting, the Minister of Labor “explained to the union leaders that the Executive’s proposal to increase the minimum wage, as of January 1, 2021, is a form that can be accepted, since there are only a few days to the end of the year and it would have been impossible to establish a predictable estimate for a longer period of time, ”according to the statement.
Minister of Labor to assess which professional activities in the private sector will be considered “essential services”
Raluca Turcan assured the union leaders that she is concerned about the situation of front-line workers, regardless of the field of activity, and asked that they have priority in the second stage of the vaccination campaign.
The labor minister also specified that in the first days of January the government will evaluate which professional activities in the private sector will be considered “essential services.”
“Around January 5 we will analyze everything that means private activities that fall into the category of essential services and I will follow up on their implementation for priority vaccination”, said Raluca Turcan.
