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The Ministry for Public Administration is therefore preparing a plan to improve the pay system and reduce anomalies. Advantages should be seen in the consistent implementation of the reward structures and equal salaries for comparable roles.

The Serbian National Assembly on Monday adopted the Law on the Salary System of Employees in the Public Sector.

It concerns some 500,000 citizens employed by the state and provides for calculating salaries based on the same elements, the same base salary and a single correlation coefficients range matrix.

Bulgaria's government has proposed to cut by 40% the one-off compensation paid upon retirement to Interior Ministry staff employed in administrative job positions.

Bulgarian teachers are paid the lowest salaries among European countries.

This is shown by the latest annual report of Eurydice on Teachers' and School Heads' Salaries and Allowances conducted in 36 European countries during the 2014/2015 school year.

With an average wage of EUR 4970 per year, teachers in Bulgaria rank at the bottom.

About 55,000 EU civil servants will receive a pay rise of 2.4% this year that will translate into spending of some EUR 100 M from the bloc's budget, the state-run Bulgarian news agency BTA reported on Tuesday.

Bulgaria has sent two of the total 112 user data requests received by social network LinkedIn in the first six months of this year, an official report reads.

Authorities in Sofia have been granted access to one of the two accounts they have asked about.

This makes Bulgaria one of the few countries which submitted requests over the respective period.

The centre-left government of Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Tuesday announced plans to increase the salaries of employees in the state education sector by 15 per cent, starting from December.

This follows a 25 per cent raise earlier this month in the wages of Romanian doctors and nurses, which are among the lowest in Europe.

The World Bank does not agree with the government's intention to raise public sector salaries and pensions, says WB Country Manager for Serbia Tony Verheijen.

According to Tanjug, Verheijen "agrees that there are public sector employees who are underpaid."

The average net monthly salary in Serbia in April was RSD 45,605 (some EUR 380) - up 5.8 percent in nominal and 5.3 percent in real terms compared to March.

This has been announced by the Statistical Office on Monday.

The Confederation of Autonomous Trade Unions of Serbia, the Independence Union and the Association of Unions of Pensioners will stage a protest in Belgrade on May 1, marking International Workers' Day.

Ahead of the protest, they organised a two-day campaign in six towns and cities across the country in order to promote labour rights and call for improvements.