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Romanian Education Min Seeks Solutions To Raise Teachers’ Wages 33% As Of Jan 2010

Romania’s Education Ministry is seeking ways to increase teachers’ wages by 33% as of January next year, as a 9% pay raise has already been assigned for this year, minister Ecaterina Andronescu told MEDIAFAX Friday.
Romanian Education Min Seeks Solutions To Raise Teachers’ Wages 33% As Of Jan 2010
10 apr. 2009, 16:33, English

Andronescu said Friday a 5% raise that teachers were supposed to get this year would be lost at the budget revision, but bonuses will be kept in the education sector and people won’t be laid off.

On the other hand, the ministry is seeking ways to keep wage hikes stipulated by law.

"Law 221/2008 stipulated a wage hike 50%, of which a 9% quota has already been assigned this year. If Law 221 would become effective again, that would entail a raise of 33.6% starting January 1, 2010, when the economy will probably recover,” Andronescu said.

According to official sources, the government considered postponing the application of the law raising teachers’ wages until the end of 2009, to draw up a law regulating all public sector wages, which will repeal the law raising teachers’ wages. The government later reconsidered, and only postponed the first tranche of the raise until May instead of April, to discuss with unions.