Employers' associations stated on Tuesday at the Tripartite National Council for Social Dialogue that they do not intend to cut the employees' wages, all the more since the provisions of the new Tax Code bring many facilities to the business environment, Labour Minister Lia Olguta Vasilescu stated on Wednesday in Parliament, after participating in the Conference for Francophone Women.
"I believe I have explained a thousand time that the gross becomes the employer's total spending, as you have seen in the case of the government decision in the case of the minimum wage. Because the gross, according to the governing programme, should have been 1,550 lei, but is 1,900 lei precisely because the employer's total spending becomes the new gross. As a matter of fact, I would like to tell you that we held the Tripartite Council yesterday in which all the leaders of the national confederations and employers' associations participated. Mr. Hossu, as he does every time, is misconstruing our words. The same as he did yesterday with what we and the representatives of the employers' associations said. The moment the premier asked the representatives of the employers' associations point blank, so as to avoid any misinterpretation, if they intend to cut the wages in the economic milieu, they all replied that they have no such intentions. All the more since the provisions of the new Tax Code bring many facilities to the business environment," Lia Olguta Vasilescu said when asked about the possibility of net wages dropping by 16 percent, in case the employers do not increase the employees' gross salary by 20 percent.
She recommended the trade unionists in the National Union Bloc learn mathematics. Moreover, the Labour Minister underscored that salaries of the category of people who make revenues from independent activities will not drop either. "In fact, I ask you to corroborate all these increases that we are carrying through in the minimum wage area, but not only, because automatically, by becoming gross salary, the employer's total spending will measure up against the other wages, with the deductions that we are making and you will see that salaries will not go down at all, not even in the case of those making revenues from independent activities, in whose case the net will also increase by 7.1 percent," Lia Olguta Vasilescu stated.
In this context, she specified that the introduction of a provision according to which employers commit not to cut the employees' salaries is no longer necessary.
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