There are enough officials in Belarus to make three armies!
20% will be fired from the Council of Ministers as an experiment. The salaries will be increased. Then the experiment will cover other Belarusian officials.
Such decision was
taken by the Council of Ministers' resolution dated December 30, 2011. It
states that the budget for maintenance of the government will not be cut down.
Therefore, salaries and extra payments for those officials who will stay will
be increased.
The Council of Ministers' press-secretary Volha Douhaya doesn't know the exact
number of officials there yet, as she only works in the Council for the third
day... As for the total number of state employees in Belarus, it was measured
for the last time back in 2009.
"Nothing has changed for the two years", — says head of the
labour statistics administration of BelStat Alyaksej Tarasenka. The number
might probably even get down…
BelStat: "We only have
information for the year 2009. However, it is quite stable. The point is, the
number of state officials has been informed to every state institution, these
norms haven't changed since 2009. If there were changes, they were only in the direction
of decrease".
Euroradio has clarified that the number of state officials was getting bigger
from year to year till 2009! The increase
was 150 people or more.
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Belarus' state apparatus in 2003-2009 |
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2003 |
2005 |
2007 |
2009 |
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Total number of state officials* |
52 709 |
52 976 |
53 464 |
53 703 |
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Number of state officials with working experience more than 20 years |
7 063 |
8 106 |
8 980 |
9 390 |
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*Not counting force structures |
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The total number of officials who worked in the state administration authorities in 2011 — 168,5 thousand people.
"This is a rather broad concept, all the levels
are included here, starting from settlements' committees ending with republican
authorities of state administration. This is not only the central apparatus,
but the whole link of the executive power, starting from the lowest link",
- Alyaksej Tarasenka
has explained to Euroradio.
This makes 3,5 % from the total number of officials in the country. 38,4% of
them earned 1,5-2 million Belarusian roubles in 2010. As for the average
salary, it made only ... 1,5 million Belarusian roubles. Now the salaries are
highly likely to increase.
There is also a promise in the regulation, apart from bigger salaries, to find
employment for those officials who were less lucky…
