Sasa Magazinovic, a representative in the House of Representatives of the Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) Parliament, asked the Ministry of Finance of BiH about the proposal for the budget of the institutions for 2023, to which Minister Zoran Tegeltija answered.
“What exactly is your position as the Minister of Finance on this issue regarding the increase in the salaries of officials? What have you done to prevent an increase in the salaries of officials? What do you intend to do in the coming period so that everyone can show their feelings for the people of this country,” Magazinovic asked.
“I express my satisfaction that the Presidency determined the budget proposal that will be sent to the Parliament, which can be adopted by the end of this month. The Budget Law defines the fund for benefits, salaries, and everything else. Everything else is the amount of the base. This is an issue of the Law on Wages and it needs to be solved through it because it is the only systemic solution, although there is a law in this Parliament that tries to correct something, I think it worsens the law. The Presidency also established a system that complicates The conclusion of the Council of Ministers is to make a draft law in the next three months, which was confirmed today by the Presidency with the conclusion that it should be done in three months,” Tegeltija answered yesterday.
He reminded that at the level of the Council of Ministers, a conclusion was adopted by which the ministers waived salary increases.
“I want to say that the problem of salaries is not a problem of the highest but the lowest salaries. The law that was passed earlier clearly established what salaries should be. These are all things that must be solved systemically, not through individual changes. What you are talking about is less than 90 people in BiH, their income is not measured in percentages, but per mille. The whole effect of their salary increase is 500.000 BAM. In the Law on Wages, there is 2.5 percent of funds that managers can distribute through incentives, 20 million BAM,” Tegeltija emphasized, Klix.ba reports.
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