ArmInfo. The state apparatus seriously needs trained and experienced executives, and this problem cannot be solved on the basis of patriotism alone. Chief of Staff of the Prime Minister Edvard Aghajanyan announced this to journalists on February 15 after a government meeting.
According to the head of the government apparatus, optimization, in the first place, aims to improve the efficiency of decision-making processes. As a result, he said, there will be cuts. But, in order to understand the expected volume of reductions, according to Aghajanyan, the office of Deputy Prime Minister Mher Grigorian is engaged in functional research of the ministries involved in the restructuring process these days.
"As a result of this process, we will understand how many people will be reduced, how many employees will be transferred to another place of work. The main thing is to eliminate duplication of functions, as a result of which the public administration system will work more efficiently",he stressed.
According to him, the government will keep in touch with the dismissed employees, and the Cabinet will try to make an "inventory" of the labor market. At the same time, Deputy Prime Minister Tigran Avinyan will coordinate the work of advanced training centers, where they will be able to retrain as those who are left behind in the optimization, as well as those who have already been registered as unemployed.
According to preliminary estimates, as Aghajanyan recalled, there are more than two thousand official vacancies in Armenia, but these data are incomplete. The Ministry of Economic Development and Investments and the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs should present the real picture of the situation in the labor market. In addition, the government will try to raise public sector wages by making them competitive with the private sector. "Otherwise, it's hardly worthwhile to hope for high-quality work," he said, adding that in the private sector, salaries are often many times higher than what the civil service can provide. "I don't think that we will be able to raise salaries to the level of the private sector, but we hope that its size will be adequate," Aghajanyan said.