Salaries will increase but partially
The wages of government sector employees are expected to increase in 2012. The 2012 state budget envisages increasing their payroll by 2.3 billion drams. The change aims to increase the average pay. The number of employees in the government sector is expected to reach 116 as a result of structural reforms.Another 600 million drams will go to the employees of embassies.
The National Assembly's Standing Committee on State and Legal Affairs today continued to discuss the draft budget for 2012-13. The sitting was chaired by Republican Gagik Minasyan and Committee Chairman Davit Harutyunyan.
Addressing the participants, Deputy Finance Minister Pavel Safaryan said that a social package of 8 billion drams will be allocated to the public sector to increase the salaries of civil servants.
"We aim to provide social assistance to the sector. The introduction of a new social assistance mechanism was found more advantageous than salary reimbursement. If salaries rise, people who receive higher pay will get far more, but the mechanism will ensures equal conditions for all," he said adding that the wages of civil servants will increase by 10-20% in the next three years.
Prosperous Armenia Party (BHK) MP Vardan Bostanjyan was surprised at the increase in the government sector employees.
"Don't you think that the figures are exaggerated and do not correspond to reality," he said.
