One in three budget-paid employees is either a secretary, a cashier, a driver or an archivist
Autor:
Alina Pahoncia
30.09.2009
Only half of the budget-paid employees are teachers, doctors,
police officers, military people or magistrates, that is 680,000
people, namely those who actually provide a service in Romania,
with the rest of the public sector employees providing support to
them.
More than 36% of the employees who work for the state are
support staff for the other budget-paid employees, reveal the data
supplied to Ziarul Financiar by the Labour Ministry. This is the
first publicly revealed statistics about budget-paid personnel.
When the unitary wage system law was being debated, ZF asked the
Government to provide data on the exact number of budget-paid
employees by employee category, and the Government answered it did
not have such data available.
At the end of the first quarter this year, there were 285,000
teachers working for the state, 76,000 police officers, 7,800
judges, 133,000 military people, 136,000 public servants and
175,000 medical staff, about 50,000 being doctors, according to
previous estimates.
More than one third of the public sector employees, that is
485,000 are support staff. Bogdan Hossu, leader of the union
confederation Cartel Alfa, says that 400,000 of the almost 500,000
people employed as support staff work in local and central public
administration, that is ministries, governmental agencies and city
halls. Moreover, the union leader says that during the negotiations
over the unitary pay system law, the structure of the positions in
the public sector was not discussed because of "the lack of a
centralised statistics broken down into categories of public sector
employees."
"Support staff includes those employees that do not work with
laws and do not have a public servant status. It is usually made up
of cashiers, drivers, logistics personnel or secretaries,
archivists and the people who are part of dignitaries' staff,"
explains Geta Dragoi, executive manager of the human resources
management department of the Bucharest City Hall.