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Police and rescue workers will demand a wage increase of at least 8% as of next year, says Kalle Liivamagi, chairman of the public workers’ union association, ROTAL. The increase would restore wages to the level earned before budget cuts in 2009, according to Liivamagi. He added that unions will also demand that all public workers get their wages raised back to the levels of 2008. The state’s budgetary strategy for 2012-2015, approved late April by the government, prescribes zero growth in operating costs of state institutions for the next four years. Finance Minister Jurgen Ligi said that this does not mean that all public sector wages would be frozen; yet, total payroll costs cannot grow much.
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