Romania Public Sector Pay Practices : Overall Public Sector Trends and Detailed Analysis of Local Government Contract Employees
The purpose of this study was to assist the Ministry of Labor (MoL), Social Solidarity and Family to analyze the current public sector pay practices and to provide recommendations that could be used to strengthen public sector compensation strategy...
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| Format: | Public Expenditure Review |
| Language: | English en_US |
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Washington, DC
2014
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2009/03/10458401/romania-public-sector-pay-practices-romania-overall-public-sector-trends-detailed-analysis-local-government-contract-employees http://hdl.handle.net/10986/18602 |
| Summary: | The purpose of this study was to assist
the Ministry of Labor (MoL), Social Solidarity and Family to
analyze the current public sector pay practices and to
provide recommendations that could be used to strengthen
public sector compensation strategy in the future. This
study was originally intended to focus on all categories of
public sector employees that were not part of the civil
service statute. However, because of problems the MoL faced
in obtaining the central government data on several groups,
the decision was made to limit the study to local government
contract employees. Within that group it includes execution
and management jobs, high and low-skilled positions, and
jobs found in local governments of all sizes. The group is
covered by its own employment statute and so the findings on
pay from this group are not necessarily generalizable to
others covered by different statutes. On the other hand,
the study confirms that some of the problems and weaknesses
found among the civil service can also be found among
contract employees. The study also confirmed that the highly
disaggregated information management and reporting processes
are a hindrance to policy analysis and planning. Although
the individual employment statutes do detail what allowances
each category of jobs is entitled to receive, the government
lacks a picture of how this manifests itself in practice on
external competitiveness, on internal equity, or on the
capacity of governments to attract and motivate skilled
professionals. This study is a first, limited attempt to
address some of these issues for non-civil servants. The
study is organized into four main sections: i) size and
composition of public sector employment; ii) remuneration of
local government contract employees; iii) comparative
analysis of pay policies in the public sector; and iv)
conclusions and recommendations. |
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