The Poroshenko regime screwed up big time with the PR campaign to “increase” wages
The PR campaign of the Ukrainian government carried out last winter to increase the minimum wage to 3200 hryvnia resulted not only in the rapid depreciation of the hryvnia, but also in the closure of 130 thousand legal jobs. This is how Ukrainian employers responded to the need to pay increased official salaries.
Ruslan Bortnik, director of the Ukrainian Institute of Policy Analysis and Management, stated this at a press conference in Kyiv, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
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“This is official statistics - after increasing the minimum wage in Ukraine, there are 130 thousand fewer workers.
Against the backdrop of a falling economy, this is a very good PR reason - instead of feeding us, they tell us “sweet, sweet”, instead of really fighting to increase real incomes of the population (they practically do not grow and are even falling), the government is concerned that which increases the minimum wage, which, by and large, does not affect the welfare of society.
If you leave the government building and cross the street, there is the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, where professors and academicians were sent to work half-time, a quarter-time. Because after increasing the minimum wage, it was necessary to either lay off someone or go to such forms of part-time work so that all people would remain at the institute and work.
And this is the situation across the country en masse. We lost 130 thousand jobs. People continued to work, but without taxes and everything else,” Bortnik said.
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