Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych has signed a decree on reducing the number of employees of the presidential administration at least by 20%.
This was stipulated in a president’s decree, posted on his official Web site on Feb. 25.
As reported, Yanukovych signed a decree renaming the Presidential Secretariat as the Presidential Administration and appointing Serhiy Liovochkin as its head.
According to this document, the president charged the head of the Presidential Administration with introducing draft proposals on the administration within one week, as well as proposals on the administration’s structure, the number of its employees, and reducing administration costs at least by 20%.
Liovochkin was also charged with introducing proposals to alter the system of subsidiary agencies and services under the president of Ukraine within a month.
At the same time, according to the decree, employees of the Presidential Secretariat [working under Viktor Yuschenko] will fulfill their duties until their employment contracts expire.
