Labor Minister Simona Bucura Oprescu said Monday night that the government wants a “more flexible and efficient” budget system and that savings will be made through direct and indirect spending, News.ro quoted. According to the minister, they will no longer be hired, and heads of departments will be remunerated based on the number of subordinates, not on their positions.

The Labor Minister was asked on Monday night’s Digi 24 about the 200,000 cuts to the budget system as agreed by coalition leaders and he said: “We want a leaner and more efficient budget system.”

The minister explains that “savings will be due to both direct and indirect costs.”

“These positions are disappearing from the organizational charts of institutions, and in the event that it is still possible to be employed, these jobs will not be available (…) And then we want a more flexible and efficient budgetary apparatus, so that there is somewhere a balance between what is produced by those in the private sector and public spending,” Simona Bucura Oprescu also stated.

The Minister of Labor explained how the heads of offices in government agencies are remunerated according to their subordinate positions, even if they are unoccupied, thus effectively having no subordinates.

“The number of positions in the organizational chart is taken into account, not the number of positions occupied in the organizational chart (…) And then this is the principle according to which Prime Minister Marcel Čolaku cuts the living flesh and comes to this idea of ​​reforming the administration, which will bring an effective and flexible administration,” explained Simona Bucura Oprescu.

PNL leader Nicolae Chuke’s proposal to cut costs in all ministries was approved on Monday at a meeting of the government coalition.

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