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In a press release, Prime Minister Ludovic Orban said that public servants’ salaries are set by law and cannot be reduced. He said, however, that they will be paid based on the performance of officials. He specified that optimization and digitization measures were taken into account in the future governing program of NLP, so that salaries in the public system are paid according to performance.
“I think the chief economist of the National Bank may be referring to the salaries of NBR employees. As for salaries in all institutions, in hospitals, in schools, in all public institutions, they are established by law. Of course, we have in the government program the optimization of the governmental apparatus, digitization, simplification of procedures, the change of the system for evaluating the activity of employees in the public sector, so that those who have results and not those who do not have results are rewarded. ”Ludovic Orban specified.
The prime minister said that the goal of the government he leads is to increase the income people earn. In this context, Orban specified that Romania will benefit from financing of more than 80,000 million euros for investments, so it cannot be said that there will be no jobs.
“Romania will have to absorb 80,000 million euros. If we add the 4,100 million of the SURE program of active measures for companies and employees, we will have extremely important financing. (…) It will be a lot of work in the coming years and whoever wants to work will have work to do . There is no risk in this regard. Our goal is not to cut our salary. Our goal is to increase the income of Romanians, of course, to increase them in the public sector, according to the real activity presented by public sector employees ”Ludovic Orban also said.
He specified that regarding the minimum wage, to increase it, a formula must be found that takes into account economic realities. He recalled that there is a concern at the level of the European Union to establish criteria that would be the basis for calculating the minimum wage in the economy.
Statement by Chief Economist BNR
The Prime Minister’s clarifications on the evolution of salary are given in the context of the statements of the chief economist of the NBR, Valentin Lazea, on the shortening of the work program of public employees, simultaneously with the reduction of their salaries. Valentin Lazea, affirmed that cutting the salaries of public employees by 20% and reducing the working day to four days a week in the public system are solutions to reduce the budget deficit in 2021.
A decrease in the number of state employees does not seem feasible in the current context in which the pandemic will lead to increased unemployment in the private sector.
“Will the state be allowed to lay off the budgets and add the state sector unemployed to the already high private sector unemployment? That’s a big question mark. But that doesn’t mean the state is tied hand and foot. It’s not it is not normal for the average salary in the budget sector to be higher than in the private sector ”, declared the BNR official.
