The government decided to have all public sector employees counted the same way as private sector employees were, via an application (Revisal) of the Labor Ministry, but some of the public sector employees such as those of the Defense Ministry and those in special services are partly exempt from this rule.
“The Revisal will include all public sector employees (even physicians, teachers and magistrates), without state-run companies. The Defense Ministry and the Romanian Intelligence Service are required to make anonymous reports, but keep the records themselves,” Labor Minister Dragos Pislaru told ZF via a text message in reply to questions about what types of public sector employees will be included in Revisal.
A government decision (HG 877/2016) was published in the Official Gazette early this week in order to modify the law establishing Revisal, a software application Labor Inspection Department has been using since 2011 to keep track of employment contracts in the private sector. The decision stipulated public sector employees should be added to this record, after having been previously left out.
“This is a good thing because of its purpose, to know exactly how many employees the public sector has. I, however, think there is an error in it, because such data should not have been sent to the Labor Inspection Department, but be managed by the Labor Ministry or the Finance Ministry, and enable them to devise the yearly budget around this information,” said Emilian Duca, tax consultant with Tax & Business Solutions.
“Beyond the issues with some confidential information, it is a good thing because every time new measures are discussed with the Labor Ministry, it does not know how many employees the public sector has.”
However, the law enforcement, defense, and national security institutions – the National Defense Ministry, the Interior Ministry, National Administration of the Penitentiaries, the Romanian Intelligence Service, the Foreign Intelligence Service, the Protection and Guard Service, and the Special Telecommunications Service will have some sort of Revisal of their own, and it is not yet clear how they will be included in the Labor Inspection Department records.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)