Ulaanbaatar
Civil service salary to be increased in accordance with inflation rate
Society
Ulaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ On July 26, during a press conference on the project ‘Increasing workplace in rural areas and encouraging employment of families’, Minister of Labor and Social Protection S.Chinzorig answered the journalists question about salary raise and minimum wage.
He said “A working group on minimum wage increase was established following to the request by the Confederation of Mongolian Trade Unions on increasing the minimum wage during the tripartite negotiations. The Tripartite National Committee on Labor and Social Consensus will set the minimum wage rate in the near future. The Ministry proposed to set the minimum wage rate at MNT 300 thousand. We will hold further discussions on that matter as there are many influencing factors including inflation and GDP growth and solve it before submission of the next year budget to the Parliament. As budgetary and fiscal condition improves, we are planning to increase salary of civil servants in accordance with the inflation rate in the fourth quarter of this year or at the beginning of next year. We are negotiating on that matter with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). We will also discuss how to allocate current revenue possibilities with the IMF.”
The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection is pursuing the policy of linking salaries and pensions with the inflation rate and increase salaries of civil servants based on their workload and skills. According to the survey, in the health sector nurses working in surgery and resuscitation wards have the highest workload, while in the education sector, primary school teachers have the highest workload. Therefore, the Ministry intends to change salary scale based on the research.
B.Misheel
