Public servants to get additional vacation pays in Armenia

ArmInfo. In Armenia, a  person holding a state position and a civil service position will be  paid additional one-time vacation pay. The RA National Assembly  Committee on State and Legal Affairs at an extraordinary session on  December 2 approved amendments to the law "On remuneration of persons  holding state positions and civil service positions", submitted by  the RA government in the second and final reading.

Presenting the amendments, the Head of the Civil Service Office of  the Prime Minister of the Republic of Armenia Vache Kalashyan noted  that according to the draft law, it is recommended to pay one-time  vacation pay to employees of state and civil service positions at the  end of the year in any case, even if the employee does not use the  vacation in a given year or transfers it to the next year. The draft  law establishes guarantees for civil servants to maintain the  coefficient level due to normal growth over the years of work in the  civil service, as well as when a civil servant takes up a state  position after being dismissed from the position and during the  period of appointment to a state position, and if the term of service  after being dismissed from this position does not exceed one month.

The government also proposes to limit the salaries of employees and  technical workers of the presidential, government, National Assembly  and Constitutional Court offices not from bonus funds, but by a rate  cap.  In particular, according to the proposal, the rate should not  exceed the coefficient of 6, and the average value should not exceed  3.5.

The draft law does not have retroactive effect and will be applied  from January 1, 2025.