The Assembly has approved the salary increase for the public administration. In the session held this Thursday, the decision was approved with a vote in favor of 97 deputies, while 3 voted against.
130,000 employees who are part of the public administration will benefit from this decision.
The focus of today’s plenary session in the Assembly is the discussion and voting of the draft law, including the deputies and ministers. The green light for the wage increase was given by the Economy Commission at Tuesday’s meeting.
Journalist Esiona Konomi reported from the Assembly that according to the figures, MPs have a 97 percent salary increase, the largest that is obtained in this reforming segment of the government.
The Minister of Finance Delina Ibrahimaj emphasized that the fund for the salary increase will be obtained from the increase in income in the budget as well as from reallocations. In total, more than 130 thousand employees of the administration benefit, and the effect on the budget turns out to be about 39 billion ALL./abcnews.al
