Romanian PM Says Unitary Wage Law Upsets Those Who Lose Privilege

Boc said the share held by staff spending in the state budget grew significantly under the former government in the past several years.

The Romanian Government is asking the Parliament for a confidence vote Tuesday to enact a law on education, a law regulating wages across the public sector and a law on the reorganization of government agencies and state institutions to cut public spending.

The Government accepted slightly over 120 amendments to the three draft laws it wants enacted, less than 5% of the 2,680 amendments proposed by lawmakers.

Public sector employees in educational healthcare, law enforcement and public administration are picketing the Parliament and call on the Government not to enact the unitary pay law but renegotiate it and discard plans to cut jobs in the public sector.