Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers holds first meeting of the Interagency Working Group on Public Administration

On 14 August 2024, the first meeting of the Interagency Working Group on Improving Public Administration Legislation was held.

The working group was co-chaired by Oleh Nemchinov, Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers, and Oleksandr Kornienko, First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada.

Good governance is one of the main factors of a country’s competitiveness, economic development and a prerequisite for European integration. The public administration system in our country has already demonstrated its effectiveness in difficult conditions when it withstood the first months of the war. However, we still have room for improvement. For example, in addition to reforming the civil servants’ remuneration system, there are still open issues related to the resumption of competitions for civil service positions, establishing an effective system of disciplinary action, improving the civil servants’ evaluation system, etc.,” said Oleh Nemchinov, Minister of the Cabinet of Ministers.

During the event, the participants discussed areas requiring the involvement of professional experts and heard a report on the results of the civil servants’ remuneration reform implementation in the first half of 2024.

“We must systematically work on equal and fair working conditions in the public sector to avoid cases when people in the same positions but in different authorities receive radically different salaries,” said Oleksandr Kornienko, First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada.

At the end of the meeting, the working group decided that the following issues need to be resolved in order to further implement the remuneration system reform:

• improving the procedure for classifying civil service positions;
• improving the Catalogue of typical civil service positions and the criteria for classifying such positions;
• defining an algorithm for classifying civil service positions under martial law;
• clarifying the procedure for approving the results of classification;
• eliminating large gaps between salaries within and between families of positions;
• state bodies performing functions of the same complexity and responsibility should not be classified into different levels (and types) when setting salaries.