Will 50 thousand officials become unemployed?
The number of government employees at ministries and state agencies remains a secret even for statistics.
The state leader ordered to cut the number of state officials by nearly 50 thousand.He appointed other officials to do this - head of hte presidential administration Andrei Kabyakou and the state leader's assistant Natallya Pyatkevich. However, Pyatkevich refused to give us any comments.
Even the BelStat has no precise information on how many state officials work in our country. Press-Secretary of the Statistics Commitee Alena Kandratsenka says that they only have figures for 2011, as "this is annual data".
According to the above statistics, we have 168,5 thousand state officials in Belarus.
The number of government employees at ministries and state agencies remains a secret even for statistics.
Besides, there was an experiment on cutting the Council of Ministers apparatus in 2011. They do not comment on the results today. Former Minister of Labour alyaksandr Sasnou thinks that this initiative to decrease the number of state officials by 20% is an empty promise. Moreover, if they are going to create a special commission.
Alyaksandr Sasnou: “You can decrease the apparatus but no one will work better because of that”.
Euroradio has found out that the Council of Minister lost 23 officials as a result of that experiment.
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