In its rush to cut spending, the Government wants to cut pensions and salaries but ignores the fact that secretaries of state within ministries are paid at least 1,000 euros per month.
In Romania there are at least 300 secretaries of state, if adding up employees that hold such titles in ministries, in the Prime Minister's office, heads of agencies, and state advisors working for the Presidential Administration.
The state pays 3 million euros per year for salaries of state secretaries alone, considering that their number, as well as the number of employees subordinated to them, should have been halved since the beginning of the year, as the head of Government Emil Boc committed to do.
Each public sector employee holding the title of secretary of state earns 4,489 RON (over 1,000 euros), to which perks are added. A rough calculation reveals that the state spends at least 3 million euros for this category alone, while the amounts allocated for the apparatus of every state secretary can be ten times higher because each secretary of state has got an assistant, a driver, advisors, uses a state-issued car, and receives money for travel and other expenses, all of which add to the actual salary.
In its rush to cut spending, the Government wants to cut pensions and salaries but ignores the fact that secretaries of state within ministries are paid at least 1,000 euros per month.
In Romania there are at least 300 secretaries of state, if adding up employees that hold such titles in ministries, in the Prime Minister's office, heads of agencies, and state advisors working for the Presidential Administration.
The state pays 3 million euros per year for salaries of state secretaries alone, considering that their number, as well as the number of employees subordinated to them, should have been halved since the beginning of the year, as the h