The government decided on a ten percent salary increase for police officers and soldiers, the Prime Minister announced on Monday in a video uploaded to his Facebook page.
Viktor Orbán, after receiving police and military leaders in the Carmelite monastery, said: I would also like to express their appreciation by saying that next year, the police and soldiers will receive their six-month salary as weapon money.
In the coming months and years, we will be implementing more significant pay increases to keep our police and military
he added.
The prime minister said he thanked the police and military leaders on behalf of all Hungarians for "the fantastic work they did this year". He explained: without the police and soldiers, the country would not have been able to defend itself against the coronavirus.
They also went to hospitals and undertook health care tasks, but without them we would not have been able to stop the masses of migrants at the border
said the prime minister.
Viktor Orbán announced that more than a hundred thousand illegal border crossers were stopped by the police and soldiers at Hungary's southern borders.
From January, there will be a 10 percent wage increase for teachers, the additional coverage of which is about HUF 63 billion, the Parliamentary State Secretary of the Ministry of Human Resources announced in a video posted on the government's Facebook page on Monday.
Bence Rétvári said that despite the additional expenses caused by the coronavirus epidemic, the government decided to continue the wage increases in the public sector. He added: it is the surplus performance of the economy that lays the foundation for the coverage of these wage increases. He emphasized: this is not the first wage increase, since last year, despite the epidemic, there was already a 10 percent wage increase and the first group for which the government initiated a larger-scale wage increase. It was also the teachers, when they implemented a 50 percent wage increase in their circle over several years.
The government's plan is that in 2023, a larger-scale teacher salary increase may also take place in Hungary, the state secretary announced. As he said, in recent years, Hungary spent more than one thousand billion forints more on teachers' salaries than was covered in 2010.
Regarding the upcoming election campaign, the state secretary said that the left always makes big promises at this time and tries to drag teachers and teacher unions into the campaign and exploit them by threatening strikes or otherwise.
They promise big things in the campaign, but then during their administration, the teachers did nothing but badly, he said, reminding that 15,000 teachers were cut from their jobs and a month's salary was taken from each teacher. Hungary, on the other hand, must go forward and not backward. It must continue on the path in which the growth of the economy also provided cover for the increase in teachers' wages, emphasized Bence Rétvári.
MTI
