Civil servants in Laos surplus to requirements: survey
The number of civil servants employed in many state departments is far in excess of requirements, resulting in a heavy burden on the state in terms of expenditure on salaries, supporting allowances and related costs, a survey has found.
Many departments and divisions were found to have recruited too many officials and employed numbers that far exceeded their needs, according to an official from the Governance Development Department of the Ministry of Home Affairs, which involved the survey.
Souksakhone Vaenkeo
