Parliament deprives civil servants, judges and the military of their retirement privilages
Moldovan civil servants, judges and the military (including the police) shall enjoy no more decades-habitual social privileges at retirement, as per the amendments adopted by the Parliament on Tuesday.
Minister of Labor, Social Protection and Family Valentina Buliga stated presenting the document in the forum that the retirement age for the categories concerned shall gradually equalize with all the rest citizens, who currently go on pension at the age of 57 (women) and 62 (men).
Buliga said that, thus far, prosecutors in Moldova used to retire at the age of 50, civil servants - at 52, and the military - at slightly above 40, and that the introduction of such an unpleasant new approach has been a vital necessity.
"At the present time we have 624 thousand pensioners, and their number grew up by 5,785 persons over last year. We are facing the risk of finding ourselves in a situation when in 2020 each second citizen in Moldova will be a pensioner, and there will be no workers enough to earn pensions for them", said the minister.
She said that gradually, by adding 6 months per a calendar year, the minimum length of service, which is necessary to have to go on full-size pension, shall be growing to eventually reach 35 years instead of the current 30 years; for the military, commanding officers and the Interior troops the minimum service must constitute 25 years against 20 years now; for judges - 15 years (currently 12); for parliamentarians and members of Government - 4 years (presently 2 years); and for Gagauzia Popular Assembly chairpersons and deputies - 6 years against 4 years now.
According to the amendments, the first day of the worker's sick-leave shall now be at the worker's own expense, the second day shall be compensated by the worker's employer, and only starting from the third day the pay shall begin coming from the state-run Social Fund.
The dole shall now be calculated proceeding from the average salary/pay size of a concrete person as on his/her dismissal date, not on the basis of the average monthly pay size in the national economy as previously. This latter novelty will let the Government be saving 1.07 million lei (US$90 thousand) a year.
The amendments shall come into effect on July 1, 2011.
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