(ii) Public sector wages

Wages in the public and private sector

They can take different forms, but generally combine the deployment of private sector capital and expertise in a way which generates public benefits and receive commensurate public funding.

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.

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.

The private sector could draw resources away from the public sector.

Women employees in the public sector are entitled to 90 days maternity leave.

Indeed, public sector asset management could be outsourced, with private asset managers competing for the job. This would accelerate the development of the asset management sector, with far reaching benefits for savers and investors.

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

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

However, during the same time, employment in the international business sector rose by 5.3 per cent and in the public and real estate sectors by 2.0 per cent.21

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

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

Public sector

METHOD PUBLIC

18. There was a considerable discussion around the notion of the dual system that could result from investment policies which differentiated between the public and the private sector, as well as between the domestic and export sector.

Our age is defined by this complementarity. Unless the public sector invests, and invests wisely, the private sector will continue to hoard its funds or return them to shareholders in the forms of dividends or buybacks.

Putting order in public investment policy will not yield results if the budget is unable to allocate sufficient resources to priority sectors.

A reduction of domestic public debt could also help to boost growth by freeing resources for the productive sectors of the economy.

(a) The public sector

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).

The public sector remains the dominant employer.

And thirdly, we controlled the haemorrhaging of all our public sector corporations.

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.

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

Public sector procurement

Women in the public sector

The programme provides measures of co financing for the labour market in the private sector, part of the public sector, except in administration, and co financing in areas with particular need for certain professions.

These investments were made through the Municipal Development Institute Rural Aqueduct Project Executive Unit (INFOM UNEPAR), the Departmental Development Boards, the Presidential Secretariat for Executive Coordination (SCEP), the Social Investment Fund (FIS), the National Peace Fund (FONAPAZ), the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare (MSPAS), the Women's Unit of the Guatemalan Fund for Indigenous Development (FODIGUA), the private sector and with support from international cooperation.

This shortfall, together with a 17 per cent rise in public sector wage costs, left an estimated 160 million financial gap by the fourth quarter of 2004, resulting in a 57 per cent increase in public sector bank borrowing.

Other branches of material production

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.

Within the total, official (public sector) flows have languished all the growth has been accounted for by an increase in the private sector component.

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

The entire public sector health infrastructure is financed by the State from its own resources.

Total in thous. zlotys Public sector in thous. zlotys

PECyT also represents the efforts of the productive and public sectors to incorporate technological development into the productive processes of national firms and in training the human resources increasingly needed by the productive and educational apparatus.

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.

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

Australia also provided a number of institutional safeguards to properly manage public affairs and public property, as well as to foster a culture of transparency, accountability and rejection of corruption in the public sector, the judiciary and the prosecution services.

To improve environmental public policies, in contrast with the current economic model, in all of the productive sectors.

In the public sector 81.2 of employees have incomes exceeding twice the minimum wage, whereas only 52.6 of employees in the private sector are in this income group.