“Chaotic conditions have developed in Hungary’s transport administration since János Lazar took over the administration of the region as minister from December 1, 2022,” former BKK CEO David Vitesse said at a press conference. G7 on his podcast in September. Since the show, according to them, created a sensation, they called the numbers for help.
The G7 has directed a public interest data request to the Ministry of Construction and Transport (ÉKM) to find out how many people who worked at the company in question on 31 December 2022 were still working at ÉKM on 31 August 2023, and how many of them were employed managers in the case of the national company. To develop the infrastructure of ZRT (NIF) and other government companies that were integrated into the Ministry at the beginning of the year – The paper says In his article on this topic.
Every fifth person stood up
As they write, according to the data provided, there is no serious problem: In addition to NIF, four companies were merged into the Ministry on January 1, and 762 out of 857 employees accepted the offer of the Ministry of Education and Culture, they report. To the ministry. As of August 31, 680 of them were still working in the ministry.
So, according to ÉKM, every fifth employee from former state companies resigned within eight months.
The editors also compared data from ÉKM with the company register: the number of employees provided by the Ministry for each company was 30 percent lower than the employment data officially provided to NAV at the time of the companies’ separation.
Compared to official data for December, 44 percent of employees had left Lazzari by the end of August.
The difference can be explained by the fact that colleagues who have already served their notice period were not taken into account.
There were those who did not have to be seized
The newspaper also draws attention to a company with nearly three hundred employees, which was created as a legal successor to the Budapest Development Center previously headed by Davide Vitese, which was merged into ÉKM on 1 November. Referring to the information of former employees, G7 stated that only a small portion of employees from here went to ÉKM. This is confirmed by the fact that according to the relevant government decision, it was not even necessary to seize them.
In the field of transport development, NIF and NKK, which prepare almost all railway, road and multimodal projects, as well as major bicycle path constructions, still employed 914 people in August 2022. One year later, 350 of them worked at ÉKM, based on ÉKM information. And the company database.
If we ignore the stock exchange, it is clear that only 38 percent of the employees of transport development companies work at ÉKM and NKK today.
they write.
In July 2022, ÉKM and the companies involved employed 1,838 people, and in December another 1,541 people. However, in January 2023, only 1,247 people worked in the organizations – a third of employees disappeared in half a year. This also includes the fact that new employees have been hired in the meantime to replace some who have left. But the difference turned out to be temporary, and by August of this year, the number of employees was only 4% below the previous staffing level.
