Starting with December 1, 2018, came into force Law no. 270 of 23.11.2018 on the unitary
pay system in the budget sector, whose concept implies a unique character, which applies to all
categories of employees in the budget sector.
In the process of implementing Law no. 270 of 23.11.2018 on the unitary pay system in the
budget sector, the People's Advocate was notified about several problematic aspects and
inequalities established in the remuneration of employees in various fields, such as education, the
penitentiary system, including within the People's Advocate Office. Thus, following the addressing
of some primary school teachers regarding the discriminatory provisions for establishing basic
salaries for teachers in pre-university education, it was recommended to the Ministry of Finance
and the Ministry of Education, Culture and Research to initiate the procedure for operating the
amendments in Annex no. 7, table 1 of this Law to ensure compliance with the principle of nondiscrimination in the realization of the right to work for all teachers. Respectively, by Law no.175
of 19.12.2019 (in force since January 1, 2020) amending Law no.270 / 2018 by which they were
removed some inequalities in the pay level for some categories of employees, including those in the
field of education, from penitentiary and defense institutions, etc.
The People's Advocate also considers it necessary to revise the way of establishing the
reference value, so as to correspond to the proposed concept of this salary system, which
presupposed a unique character, which applies to all categories of employees in the budgetary
sector. In the State Budget Law for 201949 different reference values were established for various
categories of employees. From the content of the provisions in question it is not clear the
justification of the derogations established for certain categories of employees, which differ from
1000 MDL-2600 MDL.
There is also a large gap between the salaries of leading civil servants and executive civil
servants within the same entity. In some cases the salary for an executive position was about 50%
of the salary for the leading position (compared to the previous legislation the difference was about
25%). The calculation formula allows the continuous increase of the salary difference between the
leading civil servants and the executive civil servants within the same entity.
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Art.10 paragraph (2) of the State Budget Law for 2019;
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