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| SALARIES AND BUDGET SAVINGS 07/01/2009 |
| (2009-01-07) |
| Last updated: 2009-01-08 16:44 EET |
Aimed at returning to the state budget some money cashed in by luxury pensioners with the home affairs and defense ministries and other services, the Emergency Ordinance issued on December 30th, the first legislative act issued by the new government, this measure issued by the Prime Minister is also hitting hard teachers, actors and researchers. Almost 40,000 retired teachers, of whom 800 in the rural area, will no longer be allowed to claim, starting this month, both their pension and a state salary. If they choose to give up salaries, they will most probably be replaced by substitute teachers, given the small number of qualified teachers available.
PM Boc has issued the ordinance with the best of intentions, but has failed to anticipate its impact on education, research and theatres. One third of the pre-university teaching staff in Bucharest are pensioners or unqualified teachers, a situation that started in 2002, without being solved by the Education Ministry.
Some 800 professors out of 5,100 throughout Romania are aged over 65 and, with the annual approval of the university senate, got permission to teach until the age of 72. The new Education Minister, Ecaterina Andronescu, had to issue a number of exemptions from the ordinance. Trade unionists reminded Minister Andronescu that a law passed at the end of 2008 has not been enforced yet, the law on raising salaries for teaching staff by 50%.
Ecaterina Andronescu has said that the raise will be included in the 2009 draft budget, though, in her opinion, 50% is too big a raise, and she has urged teachers to be reasonable in a time of crisis.
So, for the time being, they will only have higher salaries as a project, since we don’t know if the budget for education, which was supposed to be at least 6% of the GDP, will pass. According to PM Boc, the state budget law should be finished by 15th of January. On the other hand, if some categories of pensioners will have smaller pensions, members of parliament who retire will prosper. After they slashed state aid from the budget for young mothers, and reduced administrative spending in ministries, Prime Minister Boc, as promised, should have started looking towards Parliament. That did not happen.
Right at the end of last parliament session, our elected officials decided to furtively raise their pensions, and a project for eliminating preferential pensions was swept under the carpet. And, to top it all off, the Boc executive decision gravely affects all state arts institutions, and deals a heavy blow to the great personalities of Romanian cultural life. It is unimaginable for great Romanian actors to be barred from the stage because the government said so.
Victor Rebengiuc, Mariana Mihut, Ileana Stana Ionescu, Mircea Albulescu, or Alexandru Arsinel, rehired by contract of collaboration or even copyright contracts, are questioning the executive decision, which is considered even by certain front row members of the government coalition as a national shame”.
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