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Romanian PM Says Public Sector Reduced To 1.26M Employees

The number of employees in Romania’s public sector has been reduced to 1.261 million with the application of cost standards in public administration, Prime Minister Emil Boc said Thursday evening on public television.
Romanian PM Says Public Sector Reduced To 1.26M Employees
Oana Gavrila
04 mart. 2011, 10:35, English

Boc said Romania needs to continue restructuring its public sector and keep only as many employees as it needs.

At the end of last year, Boc said the number of public sector employees had dropped to 1.27 million, below the cap agreed with the International Monetary Fund, and the restructuring process was set to continue in the fields of administration, interior and public finance.

Finance Ministry state secretary Gheorghe Gherghina said at that time 2,000 employees under the authority of the Finance Ministry would be laid off in March 2011.

In the additional letter of intent agreed upon with the IMF after its evaluation mission in late October, the Government committed to continue public sector layoffs throughout 2011 and keep its policy to hire one person per seven vacated positions.