The state should finally cut salary spending like the privatesector did when it fired people and cut salaries as early as lastyear, says businessman Dan Sucu, owner of the furniture groupMobexpert, but Finance Minister Sebastian Vladescu is still lookingfor solutions for personnel cutbacks in the public sector withoutrisking social and political instability.
"Things are different in the public sector, however, because if40,000 people were to leave in one day, that would create a shock.Likewise, were we to decide to cut salaries by 20%, that would posea great risk to social and political stability. Solutions have tobe found where salary spending could be cut in such a way as tominimise the social disturbance risk," says Vladescu, withoutproviding details about such solutions.
Sebastian Vladescu and Dan Sucu yesterday attended a special ZFExpert type meeting where readers who are experts in their fieldsdiscuss the stories to be included in the newspaper.
"The state sector has to adjust to today's reality, as the privatesector has already done. What scares me is that I see many peoplein the state sector who are quite intelligent whose results arequite modest when it comes to this adjustment," said the businesssector representative.
In reply, Vladescu invited him to come and see "how big thedifference between will and reality" was in the publicadministration, as the "social acceptance" of such harsh steps cameinto play here. Sucu answered that such a position suggested publicsector employees were more important than those in the privatesector, where hundreds of people lost their jobs without any threatto the social stability. "Wasn't restructuring painful for ourpeople, too?"
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