Employment in the public sector will not be so easy, a new restriction is being introduced

Pensioners’ Republic Fund for Pension and Disability Insurance, Photo: Petar Markovic

by work book you the public sector will not wait for the government’s green light from next year – This is what the Modifications to the Budget System Law provide. The relaxation of the ban on public sector employment will be discussed for the first time tomorrow, among other things, in Parliament’s Finance Committee. One day later and in front of the deputies.

Starting on January 1, there will be a shorter path to permanent work in state companies and institutions, but not without obstacles. Recruitment will be easier after seven years, but with a new restriction: the number of new employees must not exceed 70 percent of the total number of those who stopped working the previous year.

“The desire was not to loosen the system, but to regulate it in some way so that not all employees or new employees go to the government’s employment commission, but to transfer responsibility to the institutions they employ,” said Finance Minister Sinisa. Little.

There are more than 25 thousand five hundred employees in the Serbian electric power industry. Although experts estimate that a tenth of the employees are redundant, they affirm of that company that they lack a qualified workforce.

PIO, Photo: Robert Getel

“When there is a group of quality assemblers who want to work in EPS, a group of miners, we have a problem hiring them and they go to the other side to ensure their livelihood. I believe that this employment ban will give us the opportunity to equalize the number of employees and to solve the problem, ”says EPS Director Milorad Grčić.

A step towards solving the problem: this is how the World Bank evaluates the government’s decision. The Fiscal Council warns that the problem will not be solved.

“The risk is that we will have jobs in the wrong sectors again, that we still will not solve these structural imbalances. As long as we do not have technical analysis, including that central registrar, we know who those half a million public sector employees are, in what positions, with which qualifications, we cannot implement a substantial reform of salary grades or streamlining of public administration, “said Nikola Altiparmakov, member of the Fiscal Council.

“What needs to be done in the next period is to improve the current systematization of budget users to improve it and give a real picture of the real needs of the number of employees in accordance with the mandate of the institution. What the World Bank is helping is a new system of planning personnel and employment will be adopted no later than 2023, “added Srdjan Svircev of the World Bank.

And by 2023, the new rules on employment in the public sector should apply, which, if approved, will take effect on January 1.