The law on the salaries of public officials has been collapsing for years, which was the reason, as the government claims, to create a new one that increases the salaries of officials by 30 percent.
"The emphasis on amending the Law on Wages was not started in that direction in order to put the emphasis on A, B, C categories, but to try to correct the completely collapsed wage system to some extent and make a measure of what is possible," said Finance Minister Novica Vuković.
The Government rejects the assessment that the new law deepens the wage gap in the public sector, but that it is about balance.
According to the new regulation, MPs with a coefficient of 29,22 will have significantly higher salaries than, for example, professors with a seventh degree of education, whose coefficient is 10,42. The salary of the President of the State will be calculated according to the coefficient of 36, while the coefficients of the President of the Assembly and the Government are equal to 33,72. The opposition sees this salary increase as a fraud on the citizens.
"We see this as a continuation of satiating the appetite of state officials, as a failure to fulfill the promises that those in power made to the citizens, namely the rationalization of public administration, more rational spending of state money," said Nikola Rakočević, deputy of the Democratic Party of Socialists (DPS).
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