Cabinet Cuts Over 18,000 Jobs in District State Administrations

Dmytro Dubilet calls it a painful but necessary decision.

Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine Dmytro Dubilet announced in his Telegram channel that the staff of district state administrations (RSAs) will be cut by 18,449 positions.

Dubilet named several principles of the cuts

• some functions duplicate those of amalgamated territorial communities
• some functions have become outdated, unmeasurable and ineffective. These will be eliminated
  
• some functions can be transferred to the level of regional state administrations
  
• some functions are being merged
  

To minimize the blow to laid-off employees, according to Dubilet, the following measures have been taken

• employees will be warned two months in advance and all compensation payments will be made, including for unused vacation
• together with the State Employment Service, the Cabinet will act to find every dismissed civil servant a new job, even before dismissal
  
• the trade union, through its network of regional branches, will work with each civil servant individually
  
• together with the Ministry of Digital Transformation, IT courses will be launched in January to improve employees' competitiveness in the labor market
  

“This is a painful but necessary decision. I believe the Government should have carried out these cuts more smoothly over the last two years. Unfortunately, this did not happen — perhaps because of the elections,” — writes Dubilet.