Basescu: I support reduction of state apparatus by 10-15.000 employees [1]

Basescu: I support reduction of state apparatus by 10-15

.000 employeesPresident Traian Basescu said Wednesday evening that, in his statement on laying off 20% of the employees of the oversized state apparatus, he had not referred to 300,000 people, but to 10-15.000, mentioning that the measure should be applied by vocational testing, and the Presidency would not be exempt.He said on public television that there were voices who misinterpreted the statement he had made on the public radio last week, in which he was showing his support for the urgent layoff of a "large number" - 20% - of employees of the state apparatus, who are "useless".Basescu said on Wednesday that he had referred to the budgetary institutions and the number he considered was 10,000 - 15,000 people, not 300,000, as his statement was interpreted.Head of state resumed the idea according to which the measure should be taken urgently, by the end of this month, because every month of delay has negative effects that will affect the 22 million Romanian.He pointed out that those to be envisaged are the non-performant employees in the budgetary institutions, who are paid from public money and do not produce benefits.At the same time, Basescu recommended that, in implementing this measure, the fact that it is more difficult for advanced-age employees to find jobs, should be taken into account.The President said, however, that in all the institutions where this phenomenon would occur, vocational testing "equal for all" should be held.The Head of State said that the Presidency would not be exempt from this process, either.Asked how he identified the percentage of 20% related to those to be made redundant in the budgetary institution system, Basescu said he found that, during the Tariceanu administration, the state apparatus unjustifiably increased, approximately in that proportion.He also mentioned there was no question of personnel reductions in the Army and Police, as these structures are already undersized in terms of personnel.The President said last Thursday, on Radio România Actualitati (RRA), that there was an urgent need to lay off a "large number" of employees from the state apparatus, who are "useless", mentioning, in this context, a proportion of 20% and indicating that the Government should hurry. Basescu said he did not understand why the Government dallies the reduction of "the oversized state apparatus".
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Data publicării: 07 Aug 2009 - 06:07
 

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