Romanian Govt To Include Salary Bonus Scrapping In New Law Pack On Restructuring – Sources

"The confidentiality bonus, the bonus for risk and mental distress, which is 50% of the gross wage, the mobility bonus, as well as salary bonuses for job complexity and performance, which are 10 to 15% of the wage, are generally granted to people handling classified documents and to legal system employees. The provisions are included in the draft law as regards restructuring public institutions and applying financial measures, which will be included in the law pack for which the Government plans to take responsibility in Parliament on September 2,” official sources told MEDIAFAX.

The normative act might also include the provision forcing public sector employees to take ten days of unpaid vacation.

"The Government will draft a normative act whereby public sector employees are obliged to take ten days of unpaid vacation in the last part of the year, and the act will be introduced in the law pack for which the government plans to take responsibility in Parliament in September," the same sources said.

Prime Minister Emil Boc urged Justice Ministry officials to analyze the legal framework meant to promote this act and bring it in line with the country’s Labor Code and the valid legislation, the quoted sources said.

Boc said Monday the government would take responsibility in Parliament, on September 2, for the unitary pay law in the budget sector, the law restructuring government agencies, and the laws on pension-wage cumulus and on education.

Finance minister Gheorghe Pogea said Tuesday that public sector employees will take unpaid vacations between September and November, will shorten working hours to six from eight per day or simply work ten days less to cut budget spending by 0.3% of GDP.