Slovenian daily Finance says thousands should be sacked in public sector
Nobody is talking about pay raises being tied to higher production, everybody just wants more, because of what the public sector sees as pay injustice. "These are not pay negotiations, this is some self-governing agreement about personal income."
To push this to the extreme - everybody can work for the state, like in North Korea, "but I doubt that you would want to live in such a state," the commentator writes in Let's All Get State Jobs!.
"Because it is not nice and because it is clear that somebody needs to work and create, so we can have healthcare, education, welfare and other things normal for a European country," the paper rants on.
The problem in Slovenia is that most of people want to redistribute what has been created, while there are not enough of those who would create for the standard Slovenians want, and demand even.
The commentator would tackle the issue by laying off a few thousand public sector employees and raise the pay of the rest: "It is high time to break up with the thinking that nobody can let people go in the public sector, because this is compensated with a low pay."
"Dear colleagues in the public sector, your pay is not even that small," the paper concludes.