On December 1, 2018, wage reform enters into force. Therefore, no employee in the public system will receive a salary of less than 2,000 lei. The professional fields concerned include education, health, social assistance and local public authorities. About that announced today the DPM chairman Vlad Plahotniuc during the weekly briefing.

The Democratic leader announced that the wage reform will take place in two stages, and according to the draft, each year, the Government will be forced to raise the salaries of the public servants.

At the same time, due to this reform, some categories of employees will receive higher wages by over 90 percent.

"The main theme of today's weekly meeting was the wage reform, which the Government has been working for a very long time. The economy is on the rise, which allows us today to come up with an extraordinary initiative that will make citizens this time feel this economic growth, most directly in their pockets".

Due to this salary reform, more than 150,000 state employees will now have key wage increases. Among the professional areas targeted by wage reform are education, health, social assistance, local public authorities.

For these categories of wages, salaries will increase by 20, 50, and some even by 90 percent, which is actually an increase of unprecedented salaries in the Republic of Moldova.

One of the most important effects of the wage reform initiated by the Democratic Party is that today, through this growth, a chronic problem is solved in the public system, where out of a total of 200,000 workers, about 36,000 receive salaries today below the minimum of subsistence under 2,000 lei.

Due to this reform, no state employee will receive a salary of less than 2,000 lei.

These key increases of 20, 50, and some even 90 percent will come into effect from December 1, 2018 and according to this reform, each year, the Government will be forced to increase the salaries of the public servants as they have been modified now.

People have long been expecting these substantial wage increases that have in fact been promised by all the politicians over the years, but, as has already been demonstrated, the Democratic Party is the only party to keep its promises, has fulfilled this promise - it has increased wages, as it did with Good Roads for Moldova, First Home, Single Counter, ambulances for all localities in the country, reductions in natural gas tariffs, electricity and much more.

More details about for whom and for how much the salary will be increased, according to the reform, will be offered by the Government in the coming days.

I want to mention that we are already planning the second stage of wage reform, so that in the spring of 2019 those who have not benefited from these wage increases have already increased them.

The pay reform, which we call "Good Wages for Moldova", is one of the measures we talked about at the Great National Assembly of the Democratic Party on Sunday, where we announced a vast program of actions for Moldova that bring the welfare of our citizens", said DPM leader Vlad Plahotniuc.