The government plans to reduce the number of vacant positions in government agencies by almost 19,300, Roman Yermolychev said at a meeting with the US Embassy, UNN reports citing the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine.
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On March 15, Roman Yermolychev and Svitlana Vorobey met with Sarah Longbrake, Economic Affairs Officer at the U.S. Embassy, to discuss new conditions for civil service pay, financing of pensions and social benefits, and implementation of the National Revenue Strategy.
When we analyzed the state of remuneration in government agencies, we saw that some agencies had unlimited incentive bonuses or unreasonably high bonuses for some employees. For example, in one of the structural subdivisions of the regional state administration, an employee of the accounting department had a salary of UAH 11 thousand and a bonus of 620%, and the salary of this employee automatically increased 6 times. Therefore, in 2024, the Government implemented a remuneration reform, introducing a new graded system of salaries in public authorities
Yermolychev added that the government has decided to cut vacant staff positions in the system of state bodies by 19.3 thousand positions starting April 1:
Vacant positions under the payroll system that was in place in 2023 and earlier played an important role for ministries. After all, when ministries had a significant number of vacancies and the payroll was calculated according to the maximum number of employees, this created the prerequisites for saving money and led to higher salaries. That is why the Government corrected this situation.
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