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12 February 2019 [11:56] - Today.Az


By  Trend


Raising the minimum salary may help eliminate unofficial employment in Azerbaijan, Abulfat Maharramov, director of the labor policy department of the Azerbaijani Ministry of Labor and Social Protection, told reporters in Baku on Feb. 11.

“The employer will fail to artificially decrease the minimum threshold and will try to bring the unofficial part of the salary to the official level,” he added.

"Of course, in terms of the market economy, some employers pay salaries to employees below their economic capabilities,” Maharramov said. “But there are many companies where the minimum salary is much higher than in state organizations.”

“The structures that deliberately indicate low salaries will have to raise them,” he said. “It’s quite obvious that this will have a positive effect on the revenues to the state budget and on an increase in retirement benefits in the future. Moreover, this will have an impact on other sectors of the economy.”

“One of the important aspects is that employees will receive higher retirement benefits as a result of the increase in the minimum salary in the future,” Maharramov stressed.

"By increasing revenues to the state budget, the state receives additional benefits for social security and to improve the well-being of its citizens," he added.

On Feb. 8, President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev signed an order on increasing the minimum monthly salary and amending the order “On Increasing the Minimum Salary” dated December 25, 2017.

According to the order, from March 1, 2019, the minimum monthly salary will reach 180 manats.

(1.7 AZN = 1 USD on Feb. 11)



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