The new Minister of Finance, Tanczos Barna, arrived at the Government to discuss with Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu, about the so-called train ordinance on Friday, December 27.
Tanczos Barna/PHOTO: Facebook
The Ministry of Finance is preparing the so-called “train ordinance” by which it must decide whether or not to index salaries and pensions.
The ordinance must be applied by the end of the year, in order to enter into force on January 1, 2025.
The elimination of meal vouchers and holiday vouchers is also being discussed. In addition, state employment would be blocked and officials’ salaries would be frozen.
The Federation of Romanian Tourism Employers (FPTR) is outraged by this ordinance, believing that the pro-European coalition is destroying an essential industry for Romania’s economy, without consultation.
“In the purest dictatorial style, the so-called pro-European alliance secretly takes out a draft ordinance from its poisoned drawers, throws it on sources in the press and in less than 24 hours, transforms this economic abomination into an instrument destabilization official”, said the Federation, according to News.ro.
Even the Federation of Hospitality Industry Employers commented on the decision, saying that the elimination of vouchers affects more than 1.3 million people.
“Don’t take us back 20 years! The elimination of holiday vouchers directly affects over 1.3 million people – and we are referring here to the number of people from the budget apparatus – plus over 400,000 HoReCa employees, plus Romanian tourism as a whole.”, said Corina Martin, FPIOR General Secretary.
He also says about the ordinance that it destroys Romanian tourism
“Reducing the administrative apparatus, the number of civil servants, the number of agencies and national authorities that have over-sized and burdened the administrative apparatus, for years in a row – these are measures that can save money from the budget, without destroying tourism Romanian”, informed the Hospitality Federation.
