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The minimum wage as of today is 3,2 thousand hryvnias
Wage increases will take place across the entire unified tariff grid
Reported by the ANTIKOR portal citing media outlets.
Today, 1 January, a law came into force that provides for raising the minimum wage to 3,2 thousand hryvnias.
As is known, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine voted for the government's proposal regarding an increase in the minimum wage from 1 January 2017 to 3,2 thousand hryvnias. This document was later signed by President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
Minister of Social Policy Andriy Reva assured that the law provides for the implementation of a European approach to determining the minimum wage, the unlinking of senior officials' base salaries from the minimum wage indicator, and the abolition of the use of the minimum wage indicator for calculating fines, the cost of administrative services, taxes, and fees.
"The increase in the minimum wage will apply to everyone. The first tariff grade will also rise and it will be increased by practically 300 hryvnias, that is, from 1 January the tariff grade will be 1600 hryvnias, no employee will receive less than 3200. But tariff grades that are higher will also be indexed in accordance with the increase of the first tariff grade. In other words, wage increases will take place across the entire unified tariff grid in all tariff grades," reported Vice Prime Minister Pavlo Rozenko.
According to him, the increased minimum wage will not affect the size of the subsidy assigned in the heating season of 2016–2017 years, nor will it affect price increases.
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