The government will also increase wages in the public sector, but not for all state employees, mainly for resident physicians and novice teachers.
Earlier Monday, people close to the matter told news agency MEDIAFAX that the government and the International Monetary Fund agreed on increasing the wages of resident physicians and teachers at the beginning of their career by 3% to 4% in 2014. Wage increases for other categories of employees in the public sector depend on budget revenues, the sources said.
Joint teams from the IMF and the European Commission arrived in Bucharest on October 22 for the first review of Romania’s progress under a EUR4 billion loan program approved earlier this year. The IMF team and Prime Minister Victor Ponta have met at the Government for talks Monday evening. (EUR1=RON4.4356)