It would be a scandal if not very successful projects in companies increased pay / day
The President was invited to evaluate the draft order prepared by the Ministry of Transport (MoU), which provides for exceptions to increase staff costs in eight ministry capital companies, such as the Rail Baltica railway « European Railway Lines », SJSC « Latvijas Air Traffic » and airBaltic.
In parallel with social networks, residents are also outraged at the salaries of ministers and senior officials, reflected in officials’ declarations of 2024. Asked whether the public administration was not too « hot » with the wage raising, which the private sector was not accompanied by, the President called not to grow the remuneration fund by more than 2.6%in 2025. The President recalled that there were also exceptions – increasing wages for the home affairs system, which he thought was justified and correct, and produced some positive results.
He emphasized that there could be no exception in public administration with regard to officials, and when it comes to capital companies, each case should be seen separately. According to the President, Rail Baltica introducers, according to everything he saw, do not have any additional salaries and have to think about completely different activities. Rinkēvičs pointed out that every such decision to increase remuneration, if it is taken as an exception to which the government is entitled, must be carefully analyzed and clearly justified.
« I would definitely not agree that wages are increased for those who are actually one or the other monopolists, of whom we do not see any results, such as all our great » Baltiki « .
He noted that if the « pay increases epidemic » starts now, it would give an absolutely wrong signal. Rinkēvičs pointed out that he could not talk about saving and cutting at the same time and raising and raising wages.
