The Electoral Bloc of the Communists and the Socialists (EBCS) proposes four steps that should be taken to narrow the pay gap in the public sector and the real sector. The project was presented by the bloc’s candidate for MP Olga Rață in a press briefing, IPN reports.
Olga Rață noted that as a first step, there will be used a single minimum salary standard instead of the two systems used at present. For the purpose, a common guaranteed minimum salary will be introduced in the economy and will be used to calculate the pays of workers of the real sector and of public sector employees.
The reduction of pay gaps in the public sector is the second step. During the next two years, when decisions to raise the salaries are taken, priority will be given to employees from the least paid categories. To reduce the inequality in incomes, including in salaries, the pays of persons with low and average incomes will be taxed at lower rates, this being the third step.
The fourth step is to cap the pays of heads and deputy heads of public institutions with financial autonomy that regulate different sectors of the economy. The control over the size of salaries of state-owned enterprises will be made harsher.
