January 21, Elena Prus - BELTA/. Adjusting coefficients to the tariff rates (salaries) of public sector employees have been introduced in Belarus from January 1 of the current year. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent at the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection.

The corresponding Ministry's Resolution No. 8 of January 14, 2013, was officially published on January 20 of this year on the National Legal Internet Portal of Belarus. It was developed in execution of the Council of Ministers' Resolution No. 1230 of December 28, 2012, "On establishing the size of the first-category tariff rate for the remuneration of employees of budget organisations and other organisations receiving subsidies, whose employees are equated in remuneration to employees of budget organisations". By this government document, the first-category tariff rate has been increased to Br240 thousand from January 1, 2013, with the aim of further increasing the remuneration level of public sector employees, the purchasing power of their wages, and also partially restoring the differentiation in the remuneration of public sector employees. Simultaneously, with the aim of partially restoring the differentiation in the remuneration of public sector employees, provided for by the Unified Tariff Grid of Employees of the Republic of Belarus (ETS), the range of adjusting coefficients to the tariff rates (salaries) for employees classified in categories 11-21 has been changed from 1.545-1.032 to 1.538-1.010.