Minimum salary to RS 4100 can only grow in the second half of 2018

The issue of raising the minimum wage will be considered only in the first half.

In accordance with the modified draft budget for 2018 to the year for which the Verkhovna Rada voted on the evening of 7 December, the minimum wage in Ukraine may increase only starting from the second half of next year.

Later on Thursday evening by 273 people’s deputies supported the second reading the draft state budget for 2018 year.

Before the voting on the budget and the President and Prime Minister boasted that from next year the minimum wage in Ukraine could grow to more than 4,000 hryvnia.

However, the modified draft budget implies that the question of raising the minimum wage will be considered only in the first half.

This is stated in the initiative set forth in the amended text of the bill No. 7000, registered in the Verkhovna Rada on 1 December.

The Cabinet can charge to consider the question of raising the minimal salary on the basis of monitoring of the implementation budget in the first quarter.

From 1 January 2018, the minimum wage in the state budget is fixed at 3 723 UAH.

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