The Remuneration of Scientific Workers: Peculiarities of Both Legal Regulation and Provision of the Requirements of Dignity

Abstract

The article is aimed at researching peculiarities of legal regulation of remuneration of scientific workers, finding possibilities of its improvement to meet the requirements of dignity. The achievement of the goal set should form a powerful innovative potential of Ukraine and accelerate its innovative development. It is determined that changes in the amount and organization of wages of scholars are necessary. But in view of unreadiness of the Ukrainian economy to fundamental changes in financing research activities, these changes should be implemented in stages: increase in the salaries of scientific workers due to accounting of the degree and academic title; development and approval of the Handbook of qualification characteristics of employees of research institutions of NAS of Ukraine; substantiation of job coefficients (tariff discharges); change of the official salary of scientific worker of I. tariff rank; bringing the scholar’s work income to the level of developed countries.

Keywords

• innovative development
• wages
• wage differentiation
• qualification of scholar