"Institute of Informational Freedom and Development" (IDFI) is interested with the income of the deputies of Ministers. With the information of the organization in different Ministries is noticed different practice of issue of premiums and additional salaries in the different Ministries, reports GHN.
As the research of IDFI shows the declaration of property condition of the deputy of the Minister of Internal Affairs Davit Khutsishvili shows that in 2014 the income received from the work fulfilled by him is 139 393 GEL, from this sum the salary is only 32 640 GEL.
According to the public information placed on the informational page of the Ministry of Energetic every deputy of the Minister received 102 000 GEL and the deputies of the Minister of Justice 92 000 GEL.
With the resolution of the government of Georgia No449 of July 15, 2014 there was approved the rule of determination of the amount of the premium in the public institutions; according to this there was regulated the periodicity and maximal limit of the premium in institutions that are under the governing of the government. With the information of organization unfortunately this regulation takes into account only regulation of the system of encouragement of the public servants and there is nothing said about additives of the salaries.
With the information of IDFI in many public institutions after publishing of the resolution mentioned above the premiums were replaced with salary additives and the system of working payment need to be regulated.
For example, on every deputy of the Minister of Energetic before the adoption of the resolution of the government No449 on every month was issues 5 500 GEL premium. Because of the fact that with the resolution mentioned above was determined the limits of the periodicity and amount of the premium, in the Ministry of Energetic every month premiums were replaced by the salary additives of the same amount.
With the note of the "Institute of Informational Freedom and Development" the problems with work payment in the public service was confirmed with the fact that in 20014 in many Ministries the deputies and other officials received higher salaries than the Ministers. For example the work payment in the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2014 was 81 559 GEL when the working payment of the deputy Davit Khutsushvili was 139 393 GEL, and the income of the director of the police department of during 2014 was 105 920 GEL. Levan Izoria, the deputy of the Minister of Internal Affairs received 145 368 GEL in 2013, that is much more than the work payment of the Minister.
Like MIA the deputies of the minister received the salaries more than the Minister in the Ministries of Energetic and Justice in 2014.
With the information of the organization the data mentioned above one more time shows that it is important to make regulation not only premiums in public service but also the change of the system of premiums and salaries not to be single action and to be implemented in the context of the reform of public service.
The reform except of working payment system also have to regulate the important issues connected to the public service. Concretely to determine the classification of the public servants, to provide with social protection guarantees, system of education of publics servants, their training.
The organization considers that this kind of systemic approach will support to the formation of the model of the public service in Georgia.