Cabinet keen on efficiency-through-flexibility proposal

A Prodkutitvitetskomission proposal to give individual institutions increased flexibility when establishing pay and working conditions is being greeted warmly by the government, which says that result-based pay in particular would help increase public-sector efficiency.

Both the finance minister and the economy minister said they were open to tinkering with the collective-bargaining system, but stressed that employees and unions needed to be considered when making changes.

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