Implementing a Government-Wide Unified and Transparent Salary System in Slovenia

Virant Gregor and Rakar Iztok
Additional contact information
Virant Gregor: Associate Professor of Administrative Law and Law of Public Administration, Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Rakar Iztok: Assistant Professor of Public Administration, Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia.

NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy, 2018, vol. 11, issue 1, 183-206

Abstract: A major reform of the public sector salary system took place between 2003 and 2008, where public administration was included as one of the sub-sectors in a broader scheme, covering also the health care and social care sectors, the education sector and other parts of the public sector. The reform was extremely complex, and its development consisted of several phases. The reform resulted in a completely new salary system for the public sector. There are several tangible benefits of the reform; however, there are deficiencies, too, and some of them were amplified by measures inspired by the financial crisis. In our opinion, the changes should be focused on eliminating or drastically reducing de facto automatic promotion to higher salary grades, introducing more flexibility into the system without putting at risk its coherence and ensuring the budget for variable (performance-related) pay. Additionally, but with due caution, the option should also be considered and discussed to enable the government to classify certain positions in salary ranks higher than defined in the collective agreement, as a response to the situation on the labour market.

Keywords: public administration reform; public sector; salary system; civil service; Slovenia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.2478/nispa-2018-0008 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:vrs:njopap:v:11:y:2018:i:1:p:183-206:n:8

DOI: 10.2478/nispa-2018-0008

Access Statistics for this article

NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy is currently edited by Juraj Nemec

More articles in NISPAcee Journal of Public Administration and Policy from Sciendo
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Peter Golla ().