Part of the public sector institutions are holding contests to hire managers, advisors and inspectors, even though the government announced at the beginning of the year that public sector hiring would be frozen this year.
A normative act enacted last year (Government Ordinance 34/2009) and intended to make certain modifications to the salary law, such as the freeze of hiring in the public sector this year, allows for a few exceptions: if 7% of the total number of employees of an institution retire, one person may be hired; if the institution files a request to the ministry it reports to and "makes a convincing case", it may be allowed to fill 15% of the positions vacated by those retiring.
"These are the only ways that can be used for hiring in the public sector: either when 7% of the employees retire, or when the vacant position is considered unique and the institution requests the Finance Ministry to be allowed to hold a contest to fill it," says Valentin Mocanu, state secretary with the Labour Ministry.
This is the case of the Arad County Employment Agency (AJOFM), which has a staff of 49 and has recently advertised an inspector position, holding a contest to fill it at the end of this month.
"The contest is held for a unique vacant position that is indispensable. I believe we will cut jobs, too, but we have not been notified yet about how many employees we will have to let go," says Horia Ocolicean, AJOFM Arad manager.
Part of the public sector institutions are holding contests to hire managers, advisors and inspectors, even though the government announced at the beginning of the year that public sector hiring would be frozen this year.
A normative act enacted last year (Government Ordinance 34/2009) and intended to make certain modifications to the salary law, such as the freeze of hiring in the public sector this year, allows