He said the signature of parties on the agreement would be a guarantee for unions that the law would be voted some time after general elections on November 30.
"Romanian leftist parties use one rhetoric in public and act completely differently when it comes to facts. It is unfortunate that they resort to double-speak, as this clearly proves they are unreliable parties that make promises they won’t keep,” Tariceanu said, cited in a government press release.
On Tuesday, Tariceanu invited representatives of political parties unions and employers to sign an agreement on the basic principles of a future law to regulate wages in the public sector. Leaders of the leftist Social Democratic Party, the Conservative Party, the Democratic Liberal Party and the far-right Greater Romania Party refused to sign the agreement.
The agreement was signed by the prime minister, the ministers of finance, labor and interior, the ruling Liberal Party, the minority Hungarian Party (which is part of the government), four employers’ associations and a single union federation.