President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov signed a resolution “On measures on further improving of the structure and optimizing number of management personnel at state and economic entities” on 12 January 2010.
The resolution was adopted for further improving structure and increasing efficiency of the activities of the state bodies and economic entities in line with modern requirements of market methods of management, optimization number of management personnel and decreasing expenses for their support.
The document set maximum number of management personnel at state and economic entities, their enterprises, establishments and organizations from 1 March 2010.
In line with the resolution, number of management personnel at state and economic entities will be cut by 9,224 units or 12% and their number will make up 69,230 units.
Besides, it is planned to decrease number of deputy heads, including the first deputies, of the state and economic entities from 53 to 31 units.
Ministry of labour and social welfare in cooperation with state establishments was entrusted to assist fired people to find new jobs.
