Public-sector managers who try the
private sector after a new salary cap will not be missed,
Premier Matteo Renzi said Wednesday.
He said it was "sacrosanct" to cap salaries at the 238,000
euros that President Giorgio Napolitano gets.
The fattest government-employed cats get three or four
times that.
"Go private, we'll live with it," he said.
Rail chief Mauro Moretti recently caused a storm by
threatening to quit and offer his services to a private company
if his salary of 873,666 euros a year is curtailed.
Moretti said lower pay for the highest-flying civil
servants would force them into the private sector, prompting
critics of his stewardship of Italy's troubled railway system to
say "good riddance, let's see what he gets".
The Ferrovie dello Stato CEO added that he was counting
on Renzi's promise to carry out the pay review "reasonably".
Some public servants get more than Moretti.
Giovanni Giorgio Tempini, CEO of government saving and loan
trust Cassa Depositi e Prestiti takes home 1.035 million euros
every year.
Heads of public-private behemoths which are on the stock
market, such as fuels group Eni chief Paolo Scaroni and power
group Enel boss Fulvio Conti, are paid in the millions of euros.
Renzi has said he would also like to trim their pay, but
not as much, acknowledging that market-driven salaries are more
acceptable in the private sector.
Their pay should be more performance-linked, he said.
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