A new explanation has emerged for the decline in incomes of somepublic employees in the first three months of this year. After thesalary law was considered "responsible" for the salary cuts, tradeunions are now talking about a report of the Court of Accounts,according to which around 20% of the 1.4 million public sectoremployees received illegal state bonuses.
The Court of Accounts, an audit institution subordinated toParliament that deals with the public sector, sent a report at thebeginning of the year, according to which 235,000 employees in thepublic sector had received illegal state bonuses amounting to atotal of 259 million euros. The report, put together following lastyear's checks, was sent to Parliament, the Government, the Ministryof Finance, the Ministry of Administration and of the Interior andto the Labour Ministry, and targeted personnel costs, the number ofjobs provided for in the local budgets between 2005 and 2008, aswell as state bonuses received by public sector employees. Sincethe beginning of this year, state sector employers eliminated thebonuses called into question by the Court of Accounts, but theincome decline coincided with the enforcement of the salary law,which applies to all 1.38 million employees in the statesector.
"At the beginning of the year, when salaries were recalculatedin accordance with the positions provided for in the salary law,each public institution eliminated from the salary the bonusescalled into question by the Court of Accounts. We knew last yearthat there would be checks, because this is the role of thisinstitution, but we did not have information on the extent of thisphenomenon (illegal bonuses i.e.)," said Valentin Mocanu, statesecretary in the Labour Ministry.
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