PM announces reduction of top public sector salaries

Ivica Dačić says he will advocate for a reduction in the highest salaries in the public sector and a freeze on further employment in the public administration.

Izvor: Blic

Tuesday, 01.10.2013.

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BELGRADE Ivica Dacic says he will advocate for a reduction in the highest salaries in the public sector and a freeze on further employment in the public administration. The prime minister is in favor of these measures "with a view to ensuring the country's economic recovery." PM announces reduction of top public sector salaries "The state will have to bear the greatest burden of austerity measures, one of the ways is a halt to further employment, and a reduction in top salaries," Dacic said for the Tuesday issue of the Belgrade-based daily Blic. The daily writes that the prime minister agreed with First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic that further employment in the public administration should be stopped. “I am willing to make an agreement in the coming days to freeze the possibility of employment in the public administration and reduce the number to 50 during a year, that being exceptions, when it comes to the most competent people," Vucic said in a live broadcast on the Belgrade-based TV Pink on Sunday. Aleksandar Stevanovic, an adviser to Minister of Economy Sasa Radulovic, said for Blic that a freeze on employment in the public administration is a needed measure, but that would not be enough. “The government is working on drafting much broader measures,” Stevanovic said. Citing analysts' estimates, the daily notes that for a year this government has hired at least 1,500 people in the public administration. Pointing out that the public administration employs 1,735 people more than stipulated in the 2009 law regarding the maximum number of employees, the list adds that Serbia remains among the states in which the number of public sector workers is three times higher than in European countries. At present 71,687 people are employed in the public administration on state and local levels, Blic writes. Dacic and Vucic are seen during a government session (Tanjug) Blic Tanjug

PM announces reduction of top public sector salaries

"The state will have to bear the greatest burden of austerity measures, one of the ways is a halt to further employment, and a reduction in top salaries," Dačić said for the Tuesday issue of the Belgrade-based daily Blic.

The daily writes that the prime minister agreed with First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić that further employment in the public administration should be stopped.

“I am willing to make an agreement in the coming days to freeze the possibility of employment in the public administration and reduce the number to 50 during a year, that being exceptions, when it comes to the most competent people," Vučić said in a live broadcast on the Belgrade-based TV Pink on Sunday.

Aleksandar Stevanovic, an adviser to Minister of Economy Sasa Radulovic, said for Blic that a freeze on employment in the public administration is a needed measure, but that would not be enough.

“The government is working on drafting much broader measures,” Stevanovic said.

Citing analysts' estimates, the daily notes that for a year this government has hired at least 1,500 people in the public administration.

Pointing out that the public administration employs 1,735 people more than stipulated in the 2009 law regarding the maximum number of employees, the list adds that Serbia remains among the states in which the number of public sector workers is three times higher than in European countries.

At present 71,687 people are employed in the public administration on state and local levels, Blic writes.

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