AMN suggests teachers' pensions should be 75% of their payroll

The parliamentary faction of the Moldova Noastra Alliance (AMN) suggests that the education sector employees should receive a retirement pension equivalent to three-fourths of their average monthly payroll gain for the last 60 months of work, Info-Prim Neo reports. In this regard, AMN deputies Alexandru Oleinic and Valeriu Cosarciuc submitted a legislative initiative to Parliament to modify the Law on State Social Insurance Pensions. “The financing of the pension system in the education sector is not implemented as a state policy aimed at improving the education services for the citizens, but rather at keeping a passive control over the largest category of pensioners and public sector employees of the country. They still get the smallest pensions in the country, which are below the minimum subsistence level of the economy. In Moldova the methods of calculating pensions are discriminatory, widening the gap between ordinary people and bureaucrats”, say the AMN deputies. According to Alexandru Oleinic and Valeriu Cosarciuc, whereas the average pension of the education sector employees is 457.7 lei, a retired head of state gets 7,500 lei, prosecutors receive 4,452 lei, and the MPs 4,300 lei. The public officials receive pensions constituting 75% of their salaries, while the teachers not even 40 percent of Moldova's average salary. “The adoption of the present draft law will establish the legal framework for the calculation of pensions for the education sector employees similar to that used in calculating the pensions for the public functionaries and will ensure social equity for the teachers who have taught many generations throughout their career of 30-40 years”, the authors maintain.