Friday, February 15 2019 17:31

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.