Greece's government is set to initiate a significant discussion on abolishing permanence in the public sector, a key issue that will be formally raised during the Constitutional Review dialogue commencing in late 2025.
In a recent radio interview, Prime Minister...
The Council of State, Greece's highest court, ruled on Friday that the austerity cuts imposed on the country's civil servants during the years of the financial crisis were legal. The ruling became public on Monday afternoon.
The decision is limited...
The Greek government announced on Tuesday that an agreement has been reached between the state and the Orthodox church which keeps priests on the civil service payroll.
Clerics were in an uproar following a provisional plan agreed to in principle...
The promise of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras that his administration would stop Greece's brain drain by offering jobs in the public sector to university graduates, goes to deaf ears as those who have left Greece are not interested in...
Greece's public sector registry in 2016 was marked by more hirings than retirements, with the difference being the largest in the past four years, a Kathimerini report says.
According to Ministry of Administrative Reconstruction figures, based on a qualitative and...
The Yanis Varoufakis Plan B for the Greek economy in the event that the country clashed with creditors and went bankrupt was to partially pay civil servants with coupons, as revealed by his financial advisor Glenn Kim.
Kim, advisor to...
The Supreme Council for Civil Personnel Selection (ASEP) report for 2016 shows that 12,125 people were hired in the public sector as seasonal staff, fixed-term employees and contract workers.
The number is a record-high increase, especially considering that through ASEP...
Wage costs in Greece's public sector increased in 2016, while at the same time private sector employee costs shrank, according to Eurostat.
The European Union statistical authority figure show that in the fourth quarter of 2016, hourly labor costs to the...
Two New Democracy (ND) officials accused the government on Monday of hiring thousands of civil servants to work in island hotspots, many of which appear to have never showed up, as it was revealed by a minister on Monday.
Deputy...
The Greek Civil Servants' Confederation (ADEDY) on Tuesday released data on the number of public sector employees who now amount to 567,000.
ADEDY announced the figures at a press conference ahead of Thursday's general strike of civil servants, in protest...
