Here is how the restructuring was done: the government cut19,000 positions from the education system and 13,000 fromhospitals, but only 9,000 from ministries. The number of civilservants in the Internal Affairs Ministry went up by 1,500, to149,000.
The highest number of public sector jobs was cut in localauthorities, where around 63,000 positions were cut of the overall88,000 that the government reported as having cut in the first tenmonths of last year, shows a ZF analysis. Of the 63,000, 19,000 arein the education system and 13,000 in hospitals.
The central authorities, on the other hand, i.e. the ministries andthe institutions financed from the state budget, only made 25,000cuts in all, despite the fact that the number of public employeesin the local administration and in the central administration ismore or less the same, i.e. nearly 650,000 each.
Over 88,000 public sector jobs were cut between December 2009 andOctober 2010, most of them from among civil servants employed inthe executive local administration (town halls, county councils andlocal agencies), which lost over 33,000 positions, according todata from the National Statistics Institute (INS). At the end ofOctober 2010, there were 1.291 million public sector employees,compared with 1.379 million in December 2009.
The second-biggest cuts affected institutions financed from localbudgets, with 19,000 jobs cut in the pre-university educationsystem, while the number of hospital employee jobs has been cut byaround 13,000.
The smallest cuts were made by institutions in the centraladministration, i.e. ministries, which cut only 9,000positions.
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