Government not to raise in minimum wages in 2017 - Ukraine's PM

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"From January 1, 2017, we raised the minimum wage by half to UAH 3,200. We raised salaries for teachers by 50%, doctors by 30% in 2017, the budget envisages a 10% rise in minimum social standards, which means that this will be done in 2017 as well," he said during his speech in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

Read alsoPM Groysman vows to increase pensions in 2017"It will be very difficult to do anything else with wages in 2017... We will take our next steps in 2018... Therefore, there will be no other increase in minimum wages in 2017," Groysman said.

As UNIAN reported earlier, real wages in Ukraine in January 2017 were 8.3% lower than in December 2016, the State Statistics Service of Ukraine reported.