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05-16-2012, 04:30 PM
In an election year, the Central Government increased its already bloated payroll by RD$272 million. The latter went from RD$6.14 billion as of 31 December 2011 to RD$6.41 billion in April of this year, according to the Controller General office. The Fernandez administration, with a term expiring on 16 August 2012, created 7,420 more government posts. As reported in El Dia, the number of posts in government departments went up from 503,777 to 511,197, of which 460,209 are full time employees. El Dia also reports that the employees of the decentralized government organizations add another 142,937 to the government payroll as of 31 December, for which the payroll is RD$2.56 billion. The government payroll costs taxpayers RD$8.98 billion each month.
El Dia points out that this does not include the payroll of the National Congress, General Attorney Office, Judicial Branch, Central Electoral Board, Chamber of Accounts, Department of Customs, Department of Taxes because these entities have administrative and budgetary autonomy.
As reported, in relative terms the payroll of the Central Government increased by 4% compared to December 2011, and 12% in comparison to the same period in 2010 and 22% more than as of May 2009.
The government added 38,377 employees across several institutions between 2009 and 2012.
PLD presidential candidate Danilo Medina admitted in an interview this week that government could operate with 125,000 employees.
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El Dia points out that this does not include the payroll of the National Congress, General Attorney Office, Judicial Branch, Central Electoral Board, Chamber of Accounts, Department of Customs, Department of Taxes because these entities have administrative and budgetary autonomy.
As reported, in relative terms the payroll of the Central Government increased by 4% compared to December 2011, and 12% in comparison to the same period in 2010 and 22% more than as of May 2009.
The government added 38,377 employees across several institutions between 2009 and 2012.
PLD presidential candidate Danilo Medina admitted in an interview this week that government could operate with 125,000 employees.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#2)