Sucu to Vladescu: Wasn’t restructuring painful for our people, too?
The state should finally cut salary spending like the private
sector did when it fired people and cut salaries as early as last
year, says businessman Dan Sucu, owner of the furniture group
Mobexpert, but Finance Minister Sebastian Vladescu is still looking
for solutions for personnel cutbacks in the public sector without
risking social and political instability.
"Things are different in the public sector, however, because if
40,000 people were to leave in one day, that would create a shock.
Likewise, were we to decide to cut salaries by 20%, that would pose
a great risk to social and political stability. Solutions have to
be found where salary spending could be cut in such a way as to
minimise the social disturbance risk," says Vladescu, without
providing details about such solutions.
Sebastian Vladescu and Dan Sucu yesterday attended a special ZF
Expert type meeting where readers who are experts in their fields
discuss the stories to be included in the newspaper.
"The state sector has to adjust to today's reality, as the private
sector has already done. What scares me is that I see many people
in the state sector who are quite intelligent whose results are
quite modest when it comes to this adjustment," said the business
sector representative.
In reply, Vladescu invited him to come and see "how big the
difference between will and reality" was in the public
administration, as the "social acceptance" of such harsh steps came
into play here. Sucu answered that such a position suggested public
sector employees were more important than those in the private
sector, where hundreds of people lost their jobs without any threat
to the social stability. "Wasn't restructuring painful for our
people, too?"