According to Pop, the ministries of Labor, Education and Health have priority. The revised budget will state funds to restore public wages, he added.
The budget was last revised in August, when the Government allotted 500 million lei (EUR109.5 million) to pay arrears to firms and RON100 million to city halls to pay wages. Funds for people with disabilities and their caretakers were also increased by RON100 million.
The Romanian Parliament has recently adopted an emergency ordinance restoring public wages to pre-austerity levels gradually. The ordinance states the first wage raise, of 8%, will be operated in June 2012 and the second, of 7.4% or 2.3%, on December 1.
Wages in the public sector were cut by 25% in July 2010, as part of a series of austerity measures taken by the Boc Government. The public sector got a 15% wage raise last year. (EUR1=RON4.5642)