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| REDUNDANCY AND PROTESTS 17/08/2009 |
| (2009-08-17) |
| Last updated: 2009-08-18 12:02 EET |
It is a fact: the number of civil servants in village and town halls, local and county councils will decrease for more incomes to go to the budget in this period of crisis. Last weekend, officials of the Finance and Interior Ministries and local officials agreed on the need for norms to be established on the necessary number of staff members. The number of public sector employees will be readjusted depending on those norms. Finance Minister, Gheorghe Pogea:
“We want to work out staff norms and cost standards indicative of the number of staff members in the central and local public administration needed for quality services to be provided. For sure, today, we are overstaffed. I can’t say how many staff members we’ve got now. Certainly, a cut in personnel spending will automatically involve redundancy.”
The newspaper ROMANIA LIBERA headlines “Red code for village and town hall employees”, carrying the news about the imminent redundancy. The ruling coalition, the paper says, has established the cost standards at locality level: 24 civil servants for over 10,000 inhabitants, 12 civil servants for less than 1500 inhabitants. The same paper writes that Administration and Interior Minister Dan Nica allegedly threatened village and town halls that unless they started making people redundant, they would no longer get investment funds. The figures are not official, but economists set forth the idea of total savings of about 125 million Euros resulting from the reorganization of administrative structures.
The daily COTIDIANUL says that more than 50% of the local administration employees might be made redundant. If the measure is carried out, there will be the same number of employees as in 2005, the paper writes. The situation is difficult with state-owned companies too. 1,000 of the 9,000 employees of the “Oltenia” National Brown Coal Company based in Southern Romania on Monday were laid off for one month. The severe measures concerning public sector employees were announced against the backdrop of discontent that had already been voiced by certain categories of employees in the public sector.
For instance, policemen have staged protests all over the country for what they consider to be the small funding of the system. One of the police union leaders said in an interview with the daily GARDIANUL that protesters expected the government to give them a clear answer about the policemen’s financial situation and rights, as well as about the ten days of unpaid leave for public sector employees announced by the government. To show the poor financial situation of the police, the union leader said that policemen ended up by paying the car fuel, while on duty, with their own money.
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