According to the ministry, the decisions taken during negotiations Friday will be disclosed to the public Monday, after they are approved by the management of national coal company CNH and unionists.
Miners announced they ended protests and will resume work Friday evening.
Miners at the seven units operated by CNH have been protesting since Monday, asking the Economy Ministry to increase hazardous work bonuses by 100 lei (about EUR23) to RON700, and raise the price of coal delivered to energy producers.
The ministry announced Thursday miners of four of the units operated by CNH might have hazardous work bonuses increased by RON100 in May, after energy company Complexul Energetic Hunedoara is set up.
Changes in the wage fund will be possible only after the new energy company is created. It will include the four CNH mines considered viable. The Romanian legislation does not allow for wage increases in state companies or institutions that register losses, said the ministry.
The four viable CNH mines are Lonea, Livezeni, Lupeni and Vulcan. The remaining three CNH mines, Petrila, Paroseni and Uricani, are considered unviable and undergo a restructuring program to be completed in 2018.
Economy Minister Lucian Bode decided Tuesday that CNH Petrosani will pay the third tranche of severance to laid off miners staring March 7. The ministry said in a press release that on March 7, CNH will start procedures to allot the sum needed for the payment of the third tranche of severance pay to workers made redundant in 2011.