Romanian Opp Parties To Submit No-Confidence Motion Over Wage Bill, Debate It After Dec 31

Romanian opposition Social Democratic Party president Victor Ponta said, after a meeting with liberal and conservative leaders, that they agreed to submit a no-confidence motion over the IMF-required unitary wage bill and debate it at the beginning of next year.

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The Government on Monday approved six out of 24 amendments submitted by lawmakers to the unitary wage bill for the public sector, for which the Executive plans to seek a confidence vote in Parliament on December 14.

Of the accepted amendments, five are changes to the frame wage law and one is a change to its application law, said the Government.

The bill sets that base wages in the public sector are to increase 15% next year compared to October 2010 and the minimum wage will increase to 670 lei (EUR1=RON4.2929) from the current RON600.

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