He added that the Ministry of Finance did not alter the hierarchy coefficients set by the Ministry of Labor, but that the values “will be adjusted,” to become sustainable. “The coefficients must be set also in accordance with the multiannual budgets that we must draft by 2014,” the minister said.
Concerning the possible layoffs that would take place in the public sector, Sarbu said that the schedule set in the agreement with the IMF will be applied, namely, recruiting one employee for every seven who will exit the system.
Government sources told the NewsIn agency at the beginning of this month that the number of employees in the public sector must drop by some 200,000 in the coming three years, so that the salary increase on the single salary law be sustainable and the share of salary expenses in gross domestic product to slide to 6.7 percent, from 8.6 percent in 2008.
The Vice President of the Confederacy of Civil Servants Trade Unions “SED LEX”, Razvan Bordeanu, told Business Standard that the layoffs in the public system will start this fall, due to the staff downsizing announced by the Cabinet headed by Prime Minister Boc. “We have been witnessing, for six months, the government’s incapacity to manage the situation, considering that the IMF requested a reduction in personnel-relate expenses in the public system,” Bordeanu said.
