Ukraine set to optimize social expenditures
The Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada has passed a bill which adjusts and repeals certain legislative acts for optimization of social expenditures.
Bill No1577 filed by Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatseniuk gained support of 256 MPs at a plenary meeting last night.
The government and the coalition agreed to preserve the current terms of salary payment in the public sector and to increase salaries and pensions after the first quarter of 2015.
"Let me begin with the payment of salaries to public sector employees. It has been proposed that the government could set the terms of salary payment in the public sector. The coalition did not support that proposal. So, we will keep the current norms of salary payment to public sector employees," Yatseniuk told the parliament.
He noted that a top salary in government agencies and public sector institutions would not exceed a seven-fold minimal salary in 2015. "If a government agency optimizes and reduces its staff it [a top salary] cannot exceed a nine-to-ten-fold minimal salary," the prime minister added.
He said that the rule would not apply to persons engaged in the army operation in eastern Ukraine and employees of the National Anti-Corruption Bureau and the National Anti-Corruption Agency.