Romania’s draft Wage Law for the budgetary sector is facing growing criticism from multiple professional categories, complicating the government’s efforts to adopt the legislation before the end of June as required under the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF/PNRR). The bill, which has more than EUR 770 million in grants attached as a reform milestone, was drafted during the period in which the Labour Ministry was controlled by the Social Democratic Party (PSD). However, PSD leaders have distanced themselves from the current version of the legislation, arguing that interim labour minister Gabriel Pîslaru selected the least acceptable variant among several options left by former minister Florin Manole before his resignation at the end of April.