OREANDA-NEWS. November 13, 2009. The Parliament has supported the corresponding government initiative at the meeting on. The Deputy Minister of Labor, Social Protection and Family Sergey Sainciuc noted that due to the lack of funds in the budget, it is not possible to ensure the planned increase in wages for all categories of the state employees, in particular, military and civil servants.

He noted that in this situation, since September 1, the government could raise only the teachers' wages by 24%. The cost of the increase in salaries of the state employees in 2009 are estimated at 1.4 billion leis, while only 600 million lei, or 10% of GDP, due to the agreement with the IMF, are provided.

As of September 1, three-phased increase in state employees salaries’ with total cost of 1 billion 095.4 million lei was implemented. The deficit amounted to 495.4 million leis. In addition, from September 1 and till the end of the year, it was planned to increase teachers, military men and public servants’ salaries.

The total cost of these actions is estimated at 335.6 million leis. Thus, in order to meet all obligations 831 million leis more are required. The Prime Minister Vladimir Filat denied the accusations of the Communist Party that freezing salaries to the state employees is one of the conditions of Memorandum, agreed with IMF.

He noted that these amendments to the law the Government has initiated on its own initiative before the arrival of IMF mission to the country. The Prime Minister noted that the previous government, headed by Zinaida Greceanii, wanted to freeze the increase in salaries for all categories of the budget employees, but the ruling party did not allow the cabinet to do this. Thus the former government continued promising to increase salaries to the state employees, being aware that there is no money in the budget for this purpose.