public sector

Romania PM: Public Sector Layoffs Depend On Performance Evaluations, Family Situation

14:04, 14 Aug. 2009
Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc on Friday said layoffs in the public sector would be made based on performance evaluations, adding the family situation of certain employees will also be considered to avoid sacking the members of the same family.

Romanian President Skeptical About Unpaid Leave In Public Sector, Suggests Staff Cuts Instead

11:25, 14 Aug. 2009
Romanian President Traian Basescu said Thursday, in the southeastern county of Tulcea, that forcing public sector employees to take ten days off without pay is not the right solution and recommended staff cuts based on performance evaluations.

Romanian State Employees To Take Unpaid Vacations, Work Less To Cut Costs

12:45, 11 Aug. 2009
Romanian 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, finance minister Gheorghe Pogea said Tuesday.

Romanian Govt Falls If Social Democrats Reject Public Sector Reform – Democrat Liberal

14:01, 09 Aug. 2009
The Romanian Government will fall in September unless the social democrats assume responsibility for reforms and accept reorganization in the public sector, said Vasile Blaga, Secretary General of Romania’s Democrat Liberal Party, on private television channel Realitatea TV.

IMF Keeps Initial Calendar For Romania’s Adoption Of Public Sector Pay Law But Is Open To Talks

15:56, 05 Aug. 2009
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) maintains the calendar for the adoption by Romania of a single and unitary law regulating salaries across the public sector, but is open to talks with government on the matter, said Wednesday, Jeffrey Franks, head of the IMF mission to Romania.

Romanian Social Democrats Prefer Temp Wage Reduction Over 20% Cut In Public Sector Jobs

15:01, 02 Aug. 2009
Romania’s social democrat minister for SMEs, Constantin Nita, told a news conference Sunday that his Social Democratic Party doesn’t agree with the solution proposed by President Traian Basescu to cut 20% of jobs in the public sector.

Romanian Govt To Set Costs Standards For Staff Expenses In All Public Institutions

12:34, 31 Iul. 2009
The Romanian government will extend the calculation system for staff expenses using cost standards to all public institutions, including ministries, to establish the number of staff and amounts of money required, Prime Minister Emil Boc said Friday.

Romanian Govt To Consult With IMF On Unitary Pay Law Before Completing Draft

13:32, 23 Iul. 2009
The Romanian government will consult with the International Monetary Fund starting next week on the structure and application of the unitary pay law in the public sector and will then complete the draft law, government sources told MEDIAFAX Thursday.

Romanian Public Sector Wage Law To Be Amended By October 30 Under IMF Agreement

10:25, 11 Iun. 2009
The Romanian Government has pledged to adopt the public sector unitary wage law by October 30, 2009, leaving at least three years for the gradual implementation of the new law, according to Romania’s stand-by agreement with the IMF, published Wednesday.

Romania’s Public Sector Unitary Pay Law Can Be Applied As Of 2021 – Union Leader

13:30, 02 Iun. 2009
Romania’s unitary wage law for the public sector will be applicable as of 2021, Vasile Marica, head of the "Sed Lex" union federation, said Tuesday following a meeting of the working group drafting the law.

Romania’s Public Sector Unitary Pay Law To Include All Institutions – Labor Min

11:57, 15 Mai 2009
Romania’s labor minister Marian Sarbu said Friday that the single and unitary wage law for the public sector would be applied to all institutions, with no exceptions, including the country’s regulatory agencies, public and private pension regulators and the securities watchdog.

Romania Pres, Supreme Court Head, Parl Leaders To See Highest Wages Over Next Yrs- Official

16:33, 14 Mai 2009
Romania's President, Supreme Court head, Senate chairman and Chamber of Deputies speaker will have the highest salaries in the public sector over the next years, Valentin Mocan, state secretary with Romania’s Labor Ministry, said Thursday.

Romanian Public Sector Single Salary Law Backed Strongly By PM

15:04, 05 Mai 2009
Romania prime minister Emil Boc said Tuesday at the Ministry of Labor, in talks about the single salary law in the public sector, that those who believe in special laws should not be in the government and secretaries of state should forget such views or resign.

Romanian Labor Ministry In Charge Of Developing Public Sector Unitary Pay Law

13:49, 04 Mai 2009
Leaders of Romania’s governing coalition decided Monday the Ministry of Labor will be in charge of completing the draft single and unitary wage law for the public sector, which should be ready by the end of June, democrat liberal vice-president Gheorghe Flutur said.

Romanian Unitary Public Sector Wage Law To Keep 1 To 15 Ratio Between Min-Max Wage

13:10, 22 Apr. 2009
Romanian deputy prime minister Dan Nica said Wednesday after a meeting of the governing coalition that the single unitary law on wages in the public sector will keep a ratio of one to 15 between the minimum and maximum salary in the sector.

Romanian Govt Estimates To Save Up To RON80M/Year Following Pension-Wage Cumulus Ban

13:13, 09 Apr. 2009
The Romanian government estimates savings of 60 million lei (EUR1=RON4.1827) this year following its decision to ban public sector employees from amassing pensions and wages if their pensions top the average monthly wage, currently set at RON1,700, official sources told MEDIAFAX.

Romanian Public Sector Employees Can’t Expect Wage Hikes With Unemployment On The Rise – President

16:06, 31 Mart. 2009
Romanian President Traian Basescu said Tuesday during a meeting with representatives of Romanian Chambers of Commerce that it is unacceptable for public sector employees to demand higher wages when the economic crisis sparks unemployment.

Romanian Public Sector Unionists Threaten Ample Protest In Bucharest

13:15, 24 Mart. 2009
Romanian public sector employees affiliated to the "Cartel Alfa" union federation threaten to stage an ample protest in capital city Bucharest when the government approves an emergency decree lowering bonuses in the public sector, which unionist consider cuts into employees’ base wages.

Romanian Public Sector Employees Protest Monday Against Scrapping Of Wage Bonuses

10:15, 23 Mart. 2009
Romanian unionists in education, administration, healthcare and police affiliated to the "Cartel Alfa" union federation picket Monday the headquarters of the Ministry of Labor and of the parties making up the country’s governing coalition, demanding the government continue to grant them bonuses.

Romanian Govt Halts Raises For Public Sector Employees With High Incomes – PM

14:03, 05 Mart. 2009
Romanian public sector employees with high wages could lose out on raises for a while, as that growth will be redirected towards people with low incomes, in order to ensure the balance between the various categories of employees, Romanian Prime Minister Emil Boc said Thursday.

Romanian Dignitaries’ Wages To Hike In 2010 If The Economy Allows It – PM

14:07, 10 Feb. 2009
Wages of Romanian dignitaries and people in public office, frozen for this year, will be increased in 2010 only if the country’s economy allows wage hikes for this category of staff, Prime Minister Emil Boc said Tuesday.

Romanian Govt To Keep Decree Banning Cumulated Public Sector Pension, Wage – PM

17:00, 09 Ian. 2009
The Romanian government keeps and backs the decree it passed, banning pensioners working in the public sector from receiving both pensions and wages, actors, teachers and social assistants may continue to work based on a civil convention, Prime Minister Emil Boc said Friday.

Romanian Govt Argues Decree Banning Cumulated Public Sector Pension, Wage Is Constitutional

12:31, 09 Ian. 2009
The decree suspending pension payments for pensioners working in the public sector complies with a Constitutional Court decision that states lawmakers can outlaw the cumulation of both pension and salary if the measure is applied indiscriminately, the Romanian government said.

Romania Should Have Public Sector Wage Law Enforced In Six Months

16:42, 05 Nov. 2008
Romania should have a functional salary law for the public sector in six months at most, and political parties meet next week to sign an agreement on the final law, union leaders said Wednesday.

All Romanian Public Sector Employees Demand 50% Wage Hikes, Threaten Street Actions

14:51, 24 Oct. 2008
All Romanian public sector employees, except staff in the education system, said Friday they demand 50% wage hikes and they will start ample street protests and general strikes to last indefinitely, after the head of state passed a law hiking teachers’ wages.

Romanian PM Invites Unions To Talks On Public Sector Wage Hikes

16:05, 07 Oct. 2008
Romanian Prime Minister Calin Tariceanu invited representatives of the country’s four union confederations to the government’s headquarters Friday to discuss the issue of wage hikes in the public sector.

Romania’s Salary Hikes Should Be Postponed For Next Gov – Fin Min

14:38, 30 Sept. 2008
Social measures, including any salary hikes in the public sector should be postponed until the investiture of the next Government, for it to undertake all decisions, Economy and Finance Minister Varujan Vosganian said Tuesday.