Loading ...Wages of managers in the state-owned companies reward good performance, Prime Minister Calin Popescu-Tariceanu stated on October 13, also adding such salaries are paid from the companies’ own revenues and expenditures budget.
Asked by the journalists about the Ordinance the Government had approved in August on the elimination of the compulsoriness imposed back in 2001 wages of managers in state-owned companies to be at least equal to that of a Secretary of State, the head of the Romanian Executive underlined Romania functions as a market economic, with “communism and populism” to be thus left aside.
“In Romania, where we are talking about a market economy, we need to leave behind communist and populist behaviour. We cannot maintain the wages of those managers heading state-owned companies at such levels much under those of the managers in the private sector, Tariceanu said. He also added that, in the context the wages of the managers of such companies running on state capital stay that low, nobody can expect good performance, as all those good managers will leave for the private sector.
“We need to accept these things and forget about such communist ideas that still haunt some of us. The managers of such a company are paid from the company’s own budget and the good performance should be rewarded. If not, than we go back to communism,” the Premier said.
Tariceanu also added that this principle is also valid in the case of the civil servants working with the governmental agencies, reminding also that he asked the head of the Chancellery Dorin Marian to present him on the occasion of the Government meeting due on Tuesday an analysis on the wages of the heads of such institutions.
“With regards to the governmental agencies there is a whole different story, as we talk about civil servants who need to follow certain rules any kind of administration needs to observe. I decided thus to ask for an analysis on the level of the Government on such wages and bonuses of the heads of governmental agencies and tomorrow, based on the information I will receive, I will make a decision in this respect,” the Romanian head of the Executive said.
According to the Ordinance the Government adopted in August, the boards of administration whose members receive on a monthly basis such indemnities representing 20% of the general manager’s wage settle the wages of the managers of such state-owned companies. The Government motivated this decision by saying that it wants to bring the level of the wages in the state-owned companies to the level in the private sector.
The central media said that, in the latest month, after the Ordinance was adopted, the wages and bonuses of the managers of certain state-owned companies doubled and even tripled.
Moreover, the media has recently presented the situation in certain national regulatory authorities in the field of communications or energy where the wages of the managers even reach some times 10,000 euros on a monthly basis.
Moreover, the media has recently presented the situation in certain national regulatory authorities in the field of communications or energy where the wages of the managers even reach some times 10,000 euros on a monthly basis.
Romanian President Traian Basescu criticized on October 10 the wages in such agencies and governmental authorities. “These huge wages represent the expression of greed and indifference of the politicians, as all those agencies are found under the subordination of the Government, with the high values having been maintained because the politicians needs to get some money from there too. It is obvious that the governmental agencies became the financial “property” of the politicians. Nevertheless, there exist solutions to stop such dissipation in certain governmental agencies,” the head of state said in the end.
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