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Romania’s Future Govt Will Repeal Act Putting Off Teachers’ Wage Hikes – President

Romanian President Traian Basescu said Friday on public radio station RRA that the future government will repeal the ordinance postponing teachers’ age hikes, adding he finds it hard to believe the act would be repealed before general elections.
Romania’s Future Govt Will Repeal Act Putting Off Teachers’ Wage Hikes - President
31 oct. 2008, 15:12, English

"After the new government settles in, the ordinance of the Tariceanu Government will be repealed. I find it hard to believe it would be repealed before,” Basescu said.
 
The head of state reiterated his appeal to unions in the education system to postpone their protests until after elections.
 
The government emergency ordinance postponing until April next year the enforcement of the law raining teachers’ wages by 50% was published in the Romanian Official Gazette Friday.
 
Senate secretary Ivan Cismaru told MEDIAFAX Friday that Senate committees will analyze the act next week, and a vote would likely be cast in a plenary meeting on November 10.
 
End-September, the Chamber of Deputies unanimously passed a law stipulating 50% salary raises for all employees in the education sector, which President Traian Basescu promulgated last Friday.
 
Also last Friday, the government decided to postpone the enforcement of the law until April 1, 2009.
 
Romanian education trade unionists with the Alma Mater Federation and the Federation of Free Unions in Education, or FSLI, decided to go on a warning strike November 10, followed by a full-scale strike on indefinite term starting with November 18 to protest against government’s decision to block wage hikes in education.