________________________________________________________________________.The change is largely to offset revenue losses after the constutional court ruled against deep cuts in public sector workers' traditional holiday and Christmas bonuses. But the Prime Minister said it would also enable the government to reduce employers' social security rates with the aim of lowering record unemployment. Critics of the government are likely to see the changes as effectively a massive tax hike for workers.
next year, employees will pay seven percentage points more of their salary to the state as their social security contribution rises to eighteen percnet