The government wants to decouple the fines and fees of the minimum wage for judges and prosecutors – Reva
The government wants to decouple the fines and fees of the minimum wage for judges and prosecutors – Reva
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If you do not remove the reference to the minimum wage, the total amount, after which comes the responsibility for corruption will increase in two times.
The government wants to decouple the salaries of the officials, their penalties and fees from increased minimum wage.
This was reported by Minister of social policy Andrei Reva during the government Hour at the Verkhovna Rada, UNIAN reports.
According to him, it involves judges, prosecutors and some officials. In General, it is planned to decouple the fines, fees and various payments from the rate of the minimum wage, which from 2017 will increase by half.
“You must remove the artificial restriction of growth of the minimum wage, to define its main role as the lower limit of remuneration for the spent a full working month,” said Reva.
The Minister also cited the example of remuneration of local court judge, whose salary is 10 times the minimum wage.
“From January 1, raising the minimum wage, the salary of judges, if we don’t VDV agemo to increase by 16 thousand UAH. That is, the poorest will receive UAH 1600, and the judge will get 16 thousand UAH additionally. So you need to eliminate the use of the minimum wage in determining schemes of official salaries of individual employees, in particular, judges, officers of the NAB, the Prosecutor’s office, the chamber of accounts, civil servants, the State Bureau of investigation and others,” he said.
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According to him, if not to remove the reference to the minimum wage, the total amount, after which comes the responsibility for corruption will increase in two times.
Reva said that, together with the draft budget submitted to Parliament a bill providing for such changes relative to the binding to the minimum wage.
Recall, November 3, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has adopted and passed on second reading in the Verkhovna Rada the draft state budget for 2017 without changing the macro. The decision was taken during an extraordinary Cabinet meeting.
The macroeconomic figures of the draft budget was approved in June of this year. They envisage GDP growth in 2017 at 3-4%, inflation at 8.1%, unemployment 8.6 per cent, the forecast level of debt is 66.8% of GDP and the exchange rate of hryvnia at the level of 27.2 UAH per 1 dollar.
The main, in the draft budget is increasing the minimum wage from 1 January 2017 up to 3200 UAH.