Greek PM Tsipras Promises More Hirings in Public Sector

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Wednesday promised more hirings in the public sector and announced that a new plan for administrative reforms will be presented soon.
Speaking in the Ministry of Administrative Reform, Tsipras presented the national strategy for administrative reform, avoiding, however, to touch the thorny issue of the evaluation of public sector employees.
Tsipras said that his administration is drafting a new recruitment method in the public sector, but without going into specifics. He said, however, that there is a plan for “ongoing training, development of digital skills, the implementation of a new system of targets and human resources assessment”.
There was no detail as to what this new system would be. As for the public sector employees evaluation – a prerequisite set by creditors for the third bailout progran review – no details were given.
Regarding recruitment of pubic sector employees, the prime minister spoke of a process that would be the solution for “repatriating” young people who choose to leave the country, promising that his government would respond to the brain drain.
In particular, he said that from mid-2018 and on, university graduates will be given the chance to take examinations so that they can be hired in the public sector. This, he said, will attract university graduates and put an end in the country’s brain drain.
Regarding those who have already left Greece for a career abroad, the State will provide incentives to facilitate their repatriation and settlement in Greece.
Tsipras also said that by 2020, three years into the administrative reform, the country will enter the era of the “digital public sector”, where all transactions with the state will be processed electronically. He also said that in the coming months it would even be possible to set up businesses electronically.

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