Greek civil servants

At least 200,000 public sector positions have been shed in Greece over the past four years, shrinking the state wage bill by about eight billion euros, according to Minister of Administrative Reform Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Presenting the 2014-2015 administration reform agenda to officials of the European Commission, the OECD (Organisation for...

The union of Greek civil servants (ADEDY) reacting to the bill lodged by the Ministry of Administrative Reform and Electronic Governance and the upcoming dismissals, has announced two 48-hour strikes. The Ministry's bill, through the abolition and merger of legal entities is...

Following the practices of politicians and thanks to several provisions of the law concerning the accountability of ministers, Greek civil servants who were charged with serious disciplinary offenses took advantage of existing “loopholes” in the law and have escaped...

In an unprecedented move, a group of civil servants of the State-owned Hellenic Horse Racing Organization (ODIE) have demanded that the Greek government together with the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (TAIPED), move forward as fast as possible with the corporation’s...

A significant number of the total of 607,516 Greek civil servants, are considered to have either low qualifications or lacking basic knowledge in computers. Almost half of them do not have a university certificate, while those who have postgraduate...

Unable to stop still runaway corruption, the Greek government is reportedly considering paying people and providing other incentives for those who report cases of graft and bribery in both the private and public sector, the newspaper Kathimerini reported. The ministries...

Hundreds of Greek civil servants demonstrated in Athens on April 17 against plans by the government to axe thousands of state jobs this year to meet austerity goals on the orders of international lenders. Archaeologists, hospital workers and other...

Greek civil servants called a 24-hour nationwide strike on Dec. 19 to protest against austerity measures and what it called the dissolution of public services. "The serious problems that workers in the public sector face, because of thousands of firings...

The Greek government plans to cut lump-sums paid to civil servants on retirement by more than a fifth, according to the civil servants’ union, which said it will resist the measure. The one-time pension payments are set to fall by...

A Greek couple fearing for their jobs threatened to commit suicide by jumping from the window ledge of their office in Athens. Both are now safe: the husband was first persuaded to come down but the wife remained for about...