(ii) Public sector wages

Wages in the public and private sector

It should be emphasized that the phenomenon of lower wages in the private sector than in the public sector only concerns manual workers apos wages, for non manual workers being higher in the private sector.

33. During the period under review, the Public Works Department was restructured and a new section created to manage works placed to contract.

140. The wages and salaries of the public service employees are fixed in autonomous wage negotiations between the public employers of the federal, State and local governments on the one hand and the trade unions of the public service on the other.

Ministry Housing and Public Works

Ministry of Public Works, Transports and Housing

All public health care employees

At the same time, manual workers apos wages in the private sector are much lower than in the public sector.

Public sector

METHOD PUBLIC

The Ethnic Affairs Commission and the Department of Public Works will work together to ensure that suitable washing facilities are incorporated into the design of public sector workplaces in the future.

77. The ratio of wages in the private to those in the public sector in the years 1991 to 1994 are as follows (in )

(a) The public sector

Although wages in the public sector are generally higher, they differ according to branch and enterprise.

Certainly, women are underrepresented in the public sector and of those already working, few are the women holding senior positions.

Work within the public sector will include the next phase of the Wallblake Airport Expansion Project, with a project cost of US 20.7 million, and road development works (see also sect. IV below).

Approximately 60 per cent of public sector salaries are paid to security forces.

UNRWA has historically maintained close working relationships with the public health departments of the host authorities.

Paolo Costa (Italy), Minister of Public Works, Government of Italy

The public sector remains the dominant employer.

In March 1994 the minimum wage was received by 2.5 per cent of people employed in the national economy (of which in the public sector 0.9 per cent and in the private sector 5.1 per cent) and in September 1994, 2.8 per cent of the total number of people employed (of which in the public sector 0.9 per cent and in the private sector 6.7 per cent).

428. Most workplaces in the country are in the public sector or in publicly owned enterprises.

The general wage pattern in this sector is that of a large number of workers earning 10 to 20 per cent more than in enterprises of the same branch in the private sector.

Private sector as of public sector

The development of standards in and by the public and private sectors is important.

Therefore, they are of great public relevance and constitute an area for intersectoral implementation based on a commitment to joint responsibility on the part of all public sectors.

Public sector procurement

Women in the public sector

Total in thous. zlotys Public sector in thous. zlotys

This sector covers emissions from energy end use in the household, commercial and public sectors as well as from the combustion of fossil fuels and by products from industrial processes.

142. Information on the income distribution in the public service (number of public service employees broken down by wage and salary categories) is given in the survey (public service personnel position as of 30 June 1992) enclosed as annex 3.

Other sectors that contribute to New Caledonia's GDP are public administration, commerce, services, construction and public works, small and medium scale industry, agriculture and tourism.

(b) Public sector management reform

a Per capita in the public sector.

Improving performance in the public sector

76. Average net wages of manual workers in the public sector amounted to 86.1 per cent of white collar workers apos wages in 1993.

and Meteorology, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, and Public Works Department

(g) Employ persons with disabilities in the public sector

Table 2. Public sector employment

(d) Evaluation and strengthening of institutions, public service management and the management of public finances, including public procurement, and the private sector

A distinction must be made between (a) the public and private sectors, the second of which includes the petroleum, or economic, sector (b) domestic workers and (c) manpower (skilled and unskilled).

Fiji itself had developed a Public Private Partnership Programme for the delivery of public infrastructure and public services by the private sector that would otherwise have been provided through traditional public sector procurement.

While women accounted for 80 per cent of the total number of employees in the education and public health sectors, they represented less than 20 per cent of the workforce in certain other sectors.

(b) With its network of public and private sector contacts and its portfolio base in complex engineering works, water resource management, complex procurement and mine action, UNOPS works to support public private sector partnerships in developing countries.