Labour Minister Florin Manole on Monday said that the human resource in the administration can be redeployed, and that way layoffs are avoided.

Manole was asked how he sees the professional and social reintegration of people who will lose their jobs in the public sector, given that several thousand employees of the public administration are protesting, on Monday, in Victory Square in Bucharest, against the staff downsizing measures unveiled by the government.

„In connection with today’s protests of the unions in the public administration, I know that today there is also a meeting of the prime minister with these same people and I will most likely participate in the meeting as well. I was, I am and I will remain a supporter of the unions and of the people who work in this country and I am not, I have not been and I will not become a supporter of the idea of layoffs of any kind. I think that the human resource in the administration, if we are to talk about it, can be subject to a redeployment. Today, to give you an example, we have nursing homes built under the National Resilience and Recovery Plan (PNRR), completed, which do not yet have a human resource allocation for the management of that investment. I don’t see anyone who could oppose the idea that there we need some people to make a functional investment that we have made and for which this country has paid some money, whether they are from European funds,” Manole told a news conference at the PSD main offices.

He added that there are other areas with few employees, mentioning to the point the Control Body of the National Agency for Disability, which until recently had one employee.

„We have 950 – 960,000 people with disabilities in this country. If we want to stop fraud and if we want to control where we suspect fraud, without affecting at any time the legitimate rights of people with disabilities in this country, imagine that almost nothing can be done with just one person. Now there are two, but it’s still extremely little. I give you these small examples, but which are important, to support what I am saying, namely that from my point of view, first of all, we must think about a rearrangement of some positions in relation to some public services; only after that can we find, or not, that there is a staff glut,” he said. AGERPRES