100,000 state employees will be sacked, while PM Boc apologies. Unions are repairing for protests. Elsewhere in the news, Unemployment benefit funds are only sufficient for four months. Last but not least, Health state secretary to be faced with a penal complaint from the civil society.
100,000 state employees will be sacked, while PM Boc apologies, Gandul reads. Romanian govern estimated between 70,000 and 400,000 lay offs during the last months, the publication goes on. Work minister Mihai Seitan talked about 80,000 in the beginning of the month and yesterday an additional 20,000 were mentioned by Finance minister Sebastian Vladescu, stating that 100,000 lay offs were being planned. In December 2009, he said that nobody will be sacked, but a number of roles would remain vacant.
Work minister told Gandul that the figure represents an "evaluation" and it was not set in stone. "Finance Ministry put together all salaries approved for 2010 and reached to a certain sum. The sum was divided by the average income and it resulted in a number of people. From this number it deducted the number of employees and one gets a difference, 'the average people', if I may say so. In reality, credit managers [like ministries] received certain salary funds and need to assess if it fits them", Work minister said.
According to him, people don't need to be sacked, but people could have their incomes reduced. Transport minister Radu Berceanu said 10,000 people from his sector are to be sacked, saying that only those remaining jobless after the official unemployment term has expired will receive compensations.
Local councils will lay off 17,000 staff, says Interior minister Vasile Blaga. PM Boc apologises for the various figures to have emerged and promises standards for a correct number. Mediafax informs that unions are preparing for protests,
