Sept. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos said a new wage scale for state workers and other austerity measures approved by Cabinet earlier this month will be submitted to parliament as legislation next week.

Venizelos commented in an e-mailed statement from the Athens-based Finance Ministry.

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