Government allocates additionally UAH 771 million to local budgets for payment of wages
Social Policy Minister of Ukraine Natalia Korolevska has said about this commenting on the government's relevant instruction, the Social Policy Ministry press service told Ukrinform.
“The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine took a decision to additionally allocate UAH 771 million for the wages of the budget sphere workers, financed from local budgets,” Korolevska said.
She reminded that in October, UAH 2.1 billion was sent for those needs. Natalia Korolevska also noted that the Social Policy Ministry prepared a package of measures for speeding up the repayment of wage arrears until the end of the current year. It envisages, in particular, approval of the government's separate instruction on raising the payment discipline at enterprises of all forms of ownership, strengthening of control over the timely payment of wages, as well as revealing and removal of the reasons of untimely payment of the wages.
“This project has already been sent for coordination of central executive authorities. In addition, we have already sent for consideration of the government the proposals on creation of a mechanism to guarantee payment of wages to workers of bankrupt enterprises. All those steps have to strengthen social protection of citizens and to ensure their timely receipt of wages,” the official assured.