L.Vitkovska, Chief Auditor-Director of the
Social Policy Department of the Accounting Chamber, presented a report. She
stated that labour remuneration was a key issue in the system of socio-economic
relations, as it concerned the majority of people in the country and influenced
all the sectors of public life. The rate of labour remuneration sets the
basic macroeconomic figures, namely, the standards of social security and total
actual demand.
She summed up the analysis of the labour remuneration of the public sector employees: the standards of labour remuneration in Ukraine remain unacceptably low. L.Vitkovska presented the following figures: in 2009, the share of labour remuneration in GDP totaled 51%, in 2010, this rate was planned to reach 50,7%, whereas it totals 65% in average in the European Union member states. The Ministry of Economy calculated that in 2011, the unit cost of labour remuneration in GDP would fall by 0,5% in comparison with 2010, making up 50,2%.
The parliament members singled out the following ways to enhance labour remuneration in the public sector: differentiation of tariff rates and official salaries for different vocational and qualification groups of the personnel depending on the complexity and results of their work on the grounds of the unified tariff net; liquidation of unjustified disproportion in the rate of labour remuneration of employees performing equally complex work; increase of labour remuneration of the public sector employees.
The People´s Deputies admitted that remuneration of labour of certain public sector employees fails to encourage, becoming a kind of social assistance non-related to the results of work.
The Cabinet of Ministers is recommended to facilitate ratification of the Concept of Labour Remuneration Enhancement in the Public Sector.