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Government to continue public sector pay rises next year
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Hungary’s government will continue public sector wage rises next year, the Finance Ministry’s state secretary for employment policy said on Wednesday.
Salaries of soldiers and police will rise another by 5 percent next year, said Sándor Bodó. The average salaries of Hungarians in these sectors will have risen by 50 percent, on average, since 2015, he added.
Health-care professionals will get another 8 percent pay rise from November of 2019.
The government launched a series of pay increases in the sector in 2016.
The government will decide on the scale and type of pay rises for civil servants in the autumn, Bodó said.
Its aim is to ensure that everyone who can work gets a job, and the 2019 budget has been prepared with this in mind, he said.
The new tax package also includes several measures that affect the labour market, Bodó told a press conference.