Filenews 4 April 2025
Only the nine DISY MPs present voted against on Thursday evening the bill that abolishes the process of unfreezing positions in the public sector by decision of the Parliament's Finance Committee. 25 MPs voted in favour of the bill.
With the new law, the Government will be able to promote the procedures for filling positions that are created or vacant, without having to submit to the Finance Committee a specific request each time for the unfreezing of the position, as provided for by the current law of 2013.
The Parliament will retain the right not to approve new positions or to abolish existing ones through its decisions during the examination of the annual budget.
As reported by MPs, almost never, from 2013 until today, has the Finance Committee rejected a single request from the Government for the unfreezing of a position.
The government submitted the bill to limit, as it said, the delays observed during the implementation of the law that was passed in 2013 to prohibit - except for exceptions approved by the Parliament - the filling of vacant positions in the public sector.
The passage of the bill had been requested by all the guilds that are active in the state machine.
