WARSAW: The Polish government will “very seriously consider” unfreezing wage bill in public sector in 2016 as it has more room in shaping its fiscal policy now with the EU’s excessive deficit procedure to be lifted, Finance Minister Mateusz Szczurek said.
“We will certainly consider a move in the wage bill, that is colloquially speaking unfreezing wages in the budget sector,” Szczurek told PAP Polish news agency. “A state that has exited excessive deficit procedure does not have to concentrate on looking for extra savings and extra receipts everywhere but it does not imply we can spend the money easily,” he said.
Detailed proposals will appear when Poland will be working on 2016 budget, the minister said. On May 12 the European Commission recommended lifting the excessive deficit procedure imposed on Poland in 2009. The procedure, when imposed upon a country, bans increases in public worker wage bill.
