Dear Sir or Madam,
on all matters relating to the public sector austerity proposals, I would like to comment:
I work in the accounting department of a small public institution (a social work centre) as an accountant and partly as a human resources manager, with 10 full-time employees, the rest being programmes. My salary for a demanding and responsible job is at grade 28. I also do a lot of other work and am efficient in my work. A beginner in a professional field in an institution has a minimum final salary grade of 30.
The person in charge of the public establishment is the Director, with a final salary grade of 44.
The person in charge does almost no professional work.
I wonder whether such a small institution needs a director with a pay grade like ours (I wonder what the work product of the director is, other than running the institution)? The work is being passed on to the secretary and the accounting department.
The financing of the institution is already guaranteed by the Ministry.
In my experience, certain centres are also interpreting certain legislation in their own way - the persons in charge, so that in some places they are still paying the daily travel costs of the cheapest public transport to get to work instead of a monthly pass, which makes the transport costs of the institution more expensive.
Despite the new legislation (the UPLA), the centres are still dealing with programmes and other matters, so this also has an additional - cost - burden on the staff paid by the Ministry and on the material costs.
However, there are still many issues where additional savings could be made.
I suggest:
-to unify certain legislation (especially that concerning costs) and to include also other state institutions, which are financed to a large extent by the budget of the Republic of Slovenia,
-to provide smaller institutions and other state institutions with a professional manager (instead of a director) who will perform professional tasks and have the title of manager, or to attach a larger institution to the institution,
-that the institutions (e.g. the Centre for Social Work) should be concerned with the purpose or tasks and not with the programmes, thus absorbing the resources of the Ministry in terms of staff and material.
Greetings