Single salary law in Romania could be applied no earlier than 2021, union head deems

The single payment law could be applied at different times for different categories of state employees while some salaries could be altered according to the new salary grid only in six or seven years, said government secretary within the Labor Ministry Valentin Mocanu at the end of negotiations with the unions.

“I am interested in those employees with small salaries. We should have a minimum salary of at least 300 euros when entering the Eurozone,” added Marica. 

On Tuesday, all ministries have presented their proposals for the hierarchy grid.

“We have established today some average coefficients for every level of the grid and the salaries will be differentiated according to the experience,” said Mocanu.  

Thus, he explained that for the level III there will be an average coefficient of 3.8, level II will have a coefficient of 6.5 while the 8.5 coefficient will correspond to the level I of the grid. Moreover, salaries of beginners will be 15 percent lower than the average, while those of the most experienced workers will exceed the average by 10 percent. 

Some 1.4 million state employees will be included in the salary grid.

The Cabinet is to take responsibility on the single salary law in a bid to apply it with January 2010 and freeze too big salaries and at the same time allow a temperate growth of the small wages, prime minister Emil Boc said at the end of April. 

Applying this law is one of the conditions imposed by the International Monetary Fund when granting the external loan, part of 20-billion euro package to help restart engines in Romania’s economy.