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Finance Minister Sinisa Mali told RTS that he is 99 percent certain that salaries in the public sector will increase from January 1 next year.
He adds that after talking with the IMF, in the next two weeks it will be known how much the increase will be.
Siniša Mali said that from January 1 it will increase the minimum price of labor as well as pensions by 5.9 percent.
“The issue with the IMF is to see how our budget is, how will the increase of salaries in the public sector be. We have waited for September and October, I am 99 percent sure that we will be able to increase salaries in the public sector,” said the minister of the Treasury.
More concrete information will be released in the coming days, Mali said.
“The IMF is here the next two weeks, at the end of its mission, we will know exactly what the budget is like for 2021 and how much will be the increase in salaries in the public sector,” said the minister.
He adds that he is sure that no country in Europe is raising wages and pensions at the moment, which, he says, speaks volumes about “the economic strength of Serbia.”
The Finance Minister affirms that a difficult year is behind us and that the economic crisis is conditioned by the pandemic “the greatest crisis that has ever hit the world.”
“Serbia is dealing well with that. We managed to save the economy through a strong program to support the economy, there is no black image coming from the world, jobs lost, there is not that here. We have preserved macroeconomic stability.” Mali noted.
He also said that the support of the World Bank, the EBRD, the US DFC shows that they are “firmly built foundations.”
“It is up to the new prime minister to justify that trust in front of the citizens of Serbia,” Mali said.
Kurir.rs/RTS
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