Number of those on public sector payroll up by 4.5%
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August 6, 2014 at 1:22pm
The National Statistics Office has said that the number of those in full-time employment has gone up by 3.2 per cent in the private sector and by 4.5 per cent in the public sector.
A government spokesman told Times of Malta that the new names on the public sector payroll include 725 former Arriva employees “who would return to the private sector once a new bus service operator is engaged”.
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And all buses without a ticketing machine are free of charge.
Are there any Marines about?
ghax ghandna gvern wise
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-08-06/news/when-people-come-to-me-about-libya-i-say-hands-off-john-dalli-6110609411/
Someone’s not pleased.
PL is generous with tax payers’ money. How often did the permanent secretary of Tonio Fenech turn down requests to engage new staff across government even when desperately needed? Many times i’d say. Tonio changed, civil servant employees increased and the permanent secretary remained. A lesson for PN i hope!!
I hope not. Our civil service was already bloated without this increase.
Yes of course he remained: “Governments come and go, but we stay here for ever!”
Soon there will be no unemployment in Malta as everyone and his dog will be employed in the public sector. Money no problem.
Not correct.
Everyone, his wife, his wife’s friend, his partner, his girlfriend and all their dogs will be employed in the public sector’
Money no problem? You must be joking.
‘Gas down ghal gol-hajt’ were no empty words. We have already started living it.
I would add “U povru hajt”
U l-poplu jhallas !
This figure needs to be placed in proper context.
While the previous administration tried to reduce public sector employment to reduce public overhead and to address the extremely low rates of productivity (in some cases as low as 30 to 40%), the Labour party increases public sector employment by almost 5%. In parallel, private sector employment was only around 2%
Well this is expected of a socialist government that is meant to be tackling unemployment, if we have a look at the Swedish model of governance.
Or we might look at KMB’s pre-1987 election model.
Kullhadd watchmens mal gvern.
It would be very interesting to know the type of employment of those 4.5% increase.
http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-08-04/opinions/noble-cottonera-6086131712/
Don’t give me Kinnie mill-kazini tal-Labour Marlene, just admit Mintoff destroyed a mixed social fabric capable of conceiving and living those streets.
‘…In Birgu I would also restore the beautiful open space in front of St Lawrence Church leading down to the Marina, by relocating our beloved Monument tal-Helsien to a more appropriate location in Vittoriosa…’
Agreed. Get Astrid and Kenneth on your side first.
Marlene Farrugia has become so damn full of herself. She’s been coming across as ridiculous for quite some time now, especially when her sanctimonious and highly hypocritical articles (she sits with Labour, lest we forget) are illustrated with the standard “Marlene the strict headmistress” file photo.
And the woman doesn’t even write well, for God’s sake. Have we no one else to fill our column space with?
The PM’s daily prayer:
China please give us money because the EU will skin us about the deficit
On the one hand we have a big increase (1,900 apparently) in public service employees, I would not be surprised if on the other hand we had a trimming down of the people on the unemployment register. Muscat himself (or was it Scicluna) said that the bulk “wanted to be petrol station attendants”. So essentially the taghna llkollers got on the state roll and some of the others probably got dropped.
Problem solved.
And are these former Arriva employees being paid out of the one euro it cost the government to buy out the company?
The PL: Bankrupting Malta one preferential government hire at a time.
How apt was the PN Election billboard “Labour won’t work.” They are so incompetent.
Now add to this the fact that Malta’s commercial/retail banks are awash with liquidity, because the loans to the productive commercial sector have stalled.
So what are the banks doing instead? They lend money to the government – hence the Treasury closing an auction of a stock issue of Eur 100 million a full 4 days ahead of schedule because both the issue and an over-allotment of 80% were oversubscribed.
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20140801/local/Stock-issue-is-popular.530076
http://rizzofarrugia.com/news-events/2014/issue-oversubscribed/
Does Prof. Scicluna think that this is reason to celebrate?
So basically, instead of driving economic growth in the productive commercial sector, the banks are investing savers’ monies in the non-productive government sector. We now have the banks fuelling an inefficient and incompetent government which, to make matters worse, is in recruiting mode.
Way to go for our economy to be the “bust in Europe.”
Absolutely.
Then you take a look at the Malta Stock Exchange, and there’s no liquidity at all. There’s nothing to buy. So the Maltese idea of “investiment” is either the traditional massive house, for posterity, or if you’re modern and trendy, giving your money to the government so it can squander it on free concerts and iced buns.
The money being loaned to the government is not even going into public infrastructural projects which will increase the stock of public goods for a higher national economic productivity in future: no new industrial estates or science parks, no new ports or airports, no new communication projects (major arterial roads, bridges, tunnels, passenger or cargo ships), no government owned power infrastructure – nada.
As you say, it is money going into recurrent expenses, down the drains: Taghna Lkoll iced buns, national celebrations, the CHOGM 2015, visits by the prime minister and a massive entourage including ‘selected media’ to distant countries to sign a worthless MOU and to taste a Peking duck, high teas for the high society and more waste.
No wonder the public debt has exploded.
Not to mention, that he seems to be doing his damnest to lose the money from the EU. Not one new field has been energized in the past year.
If employment went up 3.2% and at the same time the Civil Service increased by 4.5%, mostly by hiring Labour clowns, does that mean that real employment went down by 1.3%?
And if the 725 former Arriva employees ‘return to the private sector’ which receives millions in subsidies, what difference does that make to the Treasury?
Can’t wait for the undeclared but preferred bidder, aka Autobuses de Leon to start service after illegal contact with Joe Mizzi during the adjudication process.
Then we shall see how happy the 725 will be and how much of a guarantee they will get regarding wages and benefits, now that the GWO has fallen silent and turned into a bowl of jelly and a gaggle of ‘yes men’.
The Malta transport employees might return to the public sector, but all the wardens have been promised that they will soon be on the public payroll with a higher salary.