Lukashenko orders to synchronize private sector wage with average wage at Belarus’ top ten state-owned enterprises
<p> MINSK, Jul 10 - PrimePress. Alexander Lukashenko has ordered to ‘correlate’ salaries at private companies with the average wage at the country’s top ten enterprises. Lukashenko gave the instruction to synchronize private sector wages with those in the public sector as he visited ZAO Atlant on July 10, the president’s press-service said in a statement. </p> <p> </p> <p> “I ask to take this issue under control. The government must implement this instruction. I was thinking about salaries, how we were going to proceed. I suggest we take the country’s ten major enterprises such as Atlant, MAZ, BelAZ which pay the highest salaries. On top is the company paying the highest and at the bottom – the one with the lowest salaries. Then we calculate the average salary of these ten and communicate this information to privately-owned companies,” said Lukashenko. </p> <p> </p> <p> “Private enterprises cannot pay salaries lower than the top 10 enterprises. In this way, we will also control the salaries of those who consider themselves to be ‘free from everything'," said Lukashenko. </p> <p> </p> <p> As previously reported, June’s average gross salary of employees in Belarus amounted to Br1,080.5 in nominal terms ($443.9 at the rate of National Bank of Belarus, +0.8% month on month). End </p>
2020-07-11
Primepress
MINSK, Jul 10 - PrimePress. Alexander Lukashenko has ordered to ‘correlate’ salaries at private companies with the average wage at the country’s top ten enterprises. Lukashenko gave the instruction to synchronize private sector wages with those in the public sector as he visited ZAO Atlant on July 10, the president’s press-service said in a statement.
“I ask to take this issue under control. The government must implement this instruction. I was thinking about salaries, how we were going to proceed. I suggest we take the country’s ten major enterprises such as Atlant, MAZ, BelAZ which pay the highest salaries. On top is the company paying the highest and at the bottom – the one with the lowest salaries. Then we calculate the average salary of these ten and communicate this information to privately-owned companies,” said Lukashenko.
“Private enterprises cannot pay salaries lower than the top 10 enterprises. In this way, we will also control the salaries of those who consider themselves to be ‘free from everything'," said Lukashenko.
As previously reported, June’s average gross salary of employees in Belarus amounted to Br1,080.5 in nominal terms ($443.9 at the rate of National Bank of Belarus, +0.8% month on month). End