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Salaries would rise in January if promise were realistic - opinions
12:32 - 04.10.13
If the Government knew President Serzh Sargsyan's promise to raise the
salaries is realistic, it would enforce the measure beginning January
instead of July 2014, says an Armenian oppositionist.
`If they have calculated that they cannot keep their promise to ensure
a 100% [salary increase], the said 40% is logical, given especially
that it is planned for July,' Zoya Tadevosyan, an opposition MP from
the Armenian National Congress, told Tert.am.
In his earlier promise to raise the salaries by 100%, the president
did not specify any timeframes. At a meeting in Armenia's Ministry of
Education and Science on August 28, Sargsyan said that the minimal
salaries will increase to 90,000 Drams ($220) in 2017. He also
promised a rise in the civil servants' wages.
A former minister of finance, Vache Gabrielyan, told the Hraparak
newspaper on Wednesday that the salary increase would be consistent
with the promised figures. He said that the measure will first apply
to the security, defense and law enforcement sector. As for the other
government institutions, Gabrielyan said their salaries will increase
beginning July.
Commenting on the former minister's statement, Tadevosyan noted that
the measure will not essentially impact the society's social welfare,
as a very small part of the population will actually
benefit from that.
`The salaries of those working in government institutions are going to
rise. The employees of state institutions account for a very small
part of the economically active population, because the majority work
in the private sector where nobody either has the right to raise a
question of salary increase or can oblige the private owner to raise
his or her wages,' she said.
Vardan Bostanjyan, a former lawmaker of the Prosperous Armenia party,
disagreed to Tadevosyan's remark that the salary rise would be
insignificant for the population. `But I would like to think anyway
that it [would affect] a small part of the population', he said.
The salaries in the state institutions have not increased since 2006,
with the Government linking the fact to the 2008-2009 global economic
crisis. The topic was not addressed later.
Bostanjyan noted that an annual inflation of 4.5% since 2006 would
necessitate a 30% salary increase now.
`But that's the mildest option; the inflation rate is higher, of
course,' he said, adding that Armenia's State Budget does not allow
for a more increase.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/10/04/tadevosyan-bostanjyan/
From: Baghdasarian
12:32 - 04.10.13
If the Government knew President Serzh Sargsyan's promise to raise the
salaries is realistic, it would enforce the measure beginning January
instead of July 2014, says an Armenian oppositionist.
`If they have calculated that they cannot keep their promise to ensure
a 100% [salary increase], the said 40% is logical, given especially
that it is planned for July,' Zoya Tadevosyan, an opposition MP from
the Armenian National Congress, told Tert.am.
In his earlier promise to raise the salaries by 100%, the president
did not specify any timeframes. At a meeting in Armenia's Ministry of
Education and Science on August 28, Sargsyan said that the minimal
salaries will increase to 90,000 Drams ($220) in 2017. He also
promised a rise in the civil servants' wages.
A former minister of finance, Vache Gabrielyan, told the Hraparak
newspaper on Wednesday that the salary increase would be consistent
with the promised figures. He said that the measure will first apply
to the security, defense and law enforcement sector. As for the other
government institutions, Gabrielyan said their salaries will increase
beginning July.
Commenting on the former minister's statement, Tadevosyan noted that
the measure will not essentially impact the society's social welfare,
as a very small part of the population will actually
benefit from that.
`The salaries of those working in government institutions are going to
rise. The employees of state institutions account for a very small
part of the economically active population, because the majority work
in the private sector where nobody either has the right to raise a
question of salary increase or can oblige the private owner to raise
his or her wages,' she said.
Vardan Bostanjyan, a former lawmaker of the Prosperous Armenia party,
disagreed to Tadevosyan's remark that the salary rise would be
insignificant for the population. `But I would like to think anyway
that it [would affect] a small part of the population', he said.
The salaries in the state institutions have not increased since 2006,
with the Government linking the fact to the 2008-2009 global economic
crisis. The topic was not addressed later.
Bostanjyan noted that an annual inflation of 4.5% since 2006 would
necessitate a 30% salary increase now.
`But that's the mildest option; the inflation rate is higher, of
course,' he said, adding that Armenia's State Budget does not allow
for a more increase.
http://www.tert.am/en/news/2013/10/04/tadevosyan-bostanjyan/
From: Baghdasarian