Norwegian Industrial Manager Stein Lier-Hansen asked public employees to become fewer as a contribution in the corona dew. It causes the sister union Abelia in the NHO to react strongly.
Norwegian Industry Director Stein Lier-Hansen provokes both the employee side and his own in the NHO with the suggestion that the contribution of public employees in the corona job should be far fewer.
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Stein Lier-Hansen strongly provoked the employee side when he argued that public employees’ most important contribution to the Corona deed was to become fewer, in a interview with NTB on Sunday.
“Absurd and disrespectful to people who have now worked almost 24 hours a day,” said the union’s head Mette Nord.
But also among his own in the employers’ organization NHO, Lier-Hansen encounters discouragement. Business Policy Director Nils-Ola Widme of the sister organization Abelia, the Association of Knowledge and Technology Companies in the NHO, completely disagrees with Lier-Hansen’s play.
– Restructuring in the public sector is absolutely necessary, but then we must not create ideological fronts and talk down public employees. It is counterproductive, ”Widme told NTB.
– Our message is that no, public employees’ contribution to the day job is not to decrease, Widme emphasizes.
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– A little refined
Lier-Hansen said he understands those who feel that it is primarily the employees of the private sector who have taken the support under coronadugnaden by layoffs and threats of downsizing, while public employees have had security for their jobs.
“In view of the dawn debate, public employees may have to accept that there will be some fewer of them to help the society in the future again,” Lier-Hansen said.
He thinks that in ten years there should be 15 per cent fewer employees in the public sector. In particular, he believes the cuts must be taken in the central government and in the country’s directorates and supervision.
Abelia’s Nils-Ola Widme rejects that the public sector may have 15 percent fewer employees in the future.
– The big sectors are health care and education, and everyone agrees that there we can at least not just cut 15 per cent. At the same time, it is impossible to cut 15 percent in the public sector without cutting where most people work. It is not at all in supervision and central government, he says.
– If we only cut the number of employees, then the welfare state will fall. Those who want a smaller public sector need to be a little more refined than just calling for cuts and mergers, he adds.
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Nor does Widme believe there is much to gain from merging supervision.
– If this had been a good idea, we could only make one super-supervision. We can certainly get some minimal gains, but mergers are a far too simple solution to a complex problem, Widme believes
– So our message is, no, the public employee’s contribution to the day job is not to decrease. Public employees’ contribution to the day job, on the other hand, is to improve on the core mission for which they are responsible. Weekday. The rest of the career. The public sector consists of hundreds of knowledge companies. Efficiency is about every knowledge worker having to be “used” and further developed as optimally as possible, in the interest of society, says Widme.
He also warns against building up under contradictions between the public and private sectors.
– Then we get an ideological debate. Then all the improvement of the welfare state is perceived as propaganda from the right and the business community, instead of what should be a matter of course for any public sector profession, says Widme.
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