One-time bonuses will not be taken into account when calculating additional payments up to the minimum wage

One-time bonuses and one-time incentive payments (in connection with holidays and anniversaries) will not be included in the accrued wages used to calculate the amount of additional payments up to the minimum wage for employees whose wages are financed from budgets of various levels and off-budget funds, when determining the amount of additional payments up to the minimum wage (minimum wage) in 2024. This new provision of the law "On the Republican Budget for 2024" was adopted today in the second final reading at the plenary session of the Supreme Council of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.

The initiative belongs to the deputies of the parliamentary Committee on Economic Policy Viktor Guzun and Vadim Kravchuk. Thus, parliamentarians will regulate the issue of calculating one-time payments to public sector employees who receive an additional payment up to the minimum wage on the instructions of the President of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic. 

Some categories of employees of budgetary organizations, for example, education, physical education and sports, culture and art, tourism, social security and others, are provided with an additional payment to their wages up to the minimum wage from budgets of various levels and extra-budgetary funds according to the current legislation. But in practice, a situation arises when in the case of calculating a one-time bonus for a specific employee (for example, for a holiday or significant date), his accrued wages are equal to the wages of an employee who did not receive the said one-time bonus, since the difference is covered by the additional payment up to the minimum wage. The adopted law-in-draft will eliminate this injustice. 

The norm adopted in the 2024 republican budget after being signed by the President will apply to legal relations that arose from December 1, 2024. It is planned next year to introduce a similar norm into the law "On the minimum wage in the PMR" so that it will operate on a permanent basis.