The Government spokesman, Dan Carbunaru, emphasizes that, as agreed during the negotiations between the Government and the unions, the salary increase granted to the employees in the education system represents an advance from the salary increases that would benefit the teaching/teaching staff and non-teaching as of January 1, 2024, write Agerpres.

Carbunaru came, Friday morning, with a series of clarifications on this subject, showing that the Government fulfilled the requests of the representatives of the education system regarding salary increases starting on June 1.

The Executive spokesman showed that, through OUG 53/2023 for the establishment of measures regarding the salary of the staff in the national state education system, salary increases of 1,000 RON/month gross were granted to the teaching and auxiliary teaching staff, respectively of 400 RON for non-teaching staff.

„In order to provide the guarantees requested by the representatives of the federations of trade unions in education regarding the inclusion of the reference in the salary grid of the future salary law for a beginner or university assistant at the level of the gross average salary in the economy, the Executive has assumed this commitment, which was included in the mandatory format for any normative act, respectively in the substantiating Note of the Emergency Ordinance 53/1 June 2023 for the establishment of measures regarding the remuneration of staff from the national state education system,” Dan Carbunaru said.

According to him, in the mentioned substantiation note it is mentioned that, in the new salary law, as agreed with the unions, „the average gross salary of the beginner/university assistant is to be set at the level of the average gross salary for the economy used to base the insurance budget state social benefits for the year 2023. The entry into payment of the new salary scale will be carried out in stages, for a period of three years, as follows: 40% in the first year; 30% in the second year; 30% in the third year”.

Also, Carbunaru recalls that Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca ordered the Minister of Labour, Marius Budai, the initiator of OUG 53/2023, to continue the implementation of the commitments assumed in this format, finalizing the grids based on these benchmarks through dialogue with representatives from the education system.

„As the leaders of the coalition assumed, the Ministry of Labor will finalize the new salary law by September 1 this year, and the Government will send it to Parliament to come into effect on January 1, 2024. The guarantees regarding the implementation of the new grid in the conditions already started through the increases approved on June 1 for all the staff in education, are strengthened by the dialogue conducted at the highest level and by the negotiation format that permanently included the leaders of the governing coalition,” the Government spokesman concluded.