Boc Government hired 26,000 in administration in 2009

The Statistics Institute reveals that the statements of Boc Government officials are just an act: although the government claims to be taking restructuring steps, the number of employees in public administration rose by 26,000. The number of employees in the industry went down by 230,000 and by 70,000 in the construction sector.

The number of employees in public administration is almost 8% higher exactly one year after the start of the crisis, a year during which Boc Government had announced layoffs, hiring freeze and unpaid leave among public sector employees.

More than 360,000 Romanian salaried employees disappeared from statistics from October 2008 though October 2009, while the number of employees in public administration rose by more than 26,000, data from the National Statistics Institute reveal. Therefore, the number of employees in public administration stood at 360,000 in October 2009, compared with 334,000 in October 2008. This survey of the number of employees published in April every year is more detailed than monthly reports, but the Statistics Institute needs several months after the collection of data (October) to process it.