Several hundred Finance Ministry employees in Bucharest, Bacău,Bihor, Dâmboviţa, Galaţi, Giurgiu, Piteşti, Mureş, Prahova, SatuMare, Hunedoara, Cluj, Buzău, Constanţa, Alba, and Timiş countiessuspended their activity yesterday, unhappy with the elimination ofincentives since new minister Gheorghe Ialomiţianu took over.Salaries in the Finance Ministry have always been higher than inother institutions, and were doubled or even tripled thanks toincentives, with their elimination leading to cuts of more than 25%- the percentage by which the incomes of the other state-paidworkers were cut.
This is the second big protest of employees in a singleministry, after the police workers' strike, which prompted theresignation of Interior Minister Vasile Blaga.
The fact that the incentives granted to Finance Ministryemployees had been kept was one of the reasons cited by PresidentTraian Băsescu last month when he dismissed former ministerSebastian Vlădescu.
The Finance Ministry yesterday issued a release saying that"salaries of employees in the Ministry of Public Finance rank lastin the budget system," without specifying how it had come to this.According to data from the National Statistics Institute, theFinance Ministry is the only public institution whose funddedicated to incentives was higher than the salary fund last year.(187 million-euro salaries and 212 million-euro incentivefund).
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