DRAFT POLICY ON SALARIES BACKED

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia /MONTSAME/ The cabinet meeting held on Friday backed a draft national policy on salaries. A report on it has been given by T.Gandi, the Minister of Social Welfare an Labor. She has been obliged to reflect in the document the cabinet members' proposals and to approve it through dicussions with the trilateral national committee on labor and social agreement. The document's purposes are to refine upon the salaries system and a mechanism of regulation, and to improve the livelihood of the state and private sector's people by promoting knowledge and skills of both employers and employees. The draft policy has five chapters--the common foundation, principles and others. There are six basic principles such as fixing the salaries sizes to the reality, gradually augmenting them in connection with changes in cost of living, reducing salaries differences between state and private sector workers, using the mechanism of social agreement, running joint contracts and talks in the regulation of salaries, abolishing an inequality of cost distribution of salaries, and learning related theoretical and methodological experiences. B.Khuder