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Pay rises planned for top Polish officials: report

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Alicja Baczyńska 19.07.2016 12:29
Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party is pushing for an across-the-board increase in salaries for senior state officials, according to a report.
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Poland's Rzeczpospolita daily said beneficiaries of the party's new bill include the president, prime minister, deputy ministers, province governors and MPs. The new regulations will also provide for a salary for the First Lady, a new development in Poland, the paper reported.

Prime Minister Beata Szydło is expected to benefit the most as her gross salary will increase from 16,700 to PLN 24,100 a month, nearly six times the average salary in Poland, the daily added.

The new law links top managerial compensation in state administration with the country’s economic situation, which means that an economic slowdown would affect the wallets of those in power.

Rzeczpospolita reported that civil servants’ income will be correlated with a number of factors, such as the minimum and average pay in the country, GDP growth over a three-year period and the Gini coefficient, which measures income inequality.

Law and Justice justifies its decision saying that a pay freeze for senior state officials has been in place since 2008, Rzeczpospolita reported.

But the opposition was quick to criticize the reported plans. “If we’re hearing that there’s no money to give to nurses in Poland, and then, all of a sudden, just like that in the midst of summer we see a bill proposal for politicans then we can’t expect it go down well [with society] and a political price will be paid for this,” Civic Platform leader Grzegorz Schetyna told Polish Radio on Tuesday.

The ruling Law and Justice party, which came to power last October, is to earmark PLN 25 mln (nearly EUR 6 mln) for the salary increases, Rzeczpospolita said. (aba)

Source: Rzeczpospolita

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