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Austerity Cuts for Civil Servants Are Legal, Says Greece's Top Court

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...

Greece's Civil Servants Call 24-Hour Strike Over Pay, Pensions

ADEDY, Greece’s largest public sector union will stage a 24-hour walkout on November 14 to demand wage and pension increases, hirings and tax cuts. “Now that we’ve become a normal country with a normal government which is no longer supervised...

Greek Civil Servants Boycott Evaluation Process

Public sector employees have refused to cooperate in the evaluation of their performance, as the deadline for the completion of the process expired on Tuesday. According to estimates, the abstention rate was around 70%, while ADEDY –the union representing public...

Varoufakis' Plan B: Pay Greek Civil Servants With Coupons

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...

Civil Servants, Policeman, Lawyer Among 25 Arrested in Sham Marriage Scheme

Twenty-five people have been arrested by Attica’s security division over the past few days in connection to a criminal gang which issued residence and work permits for women from eastern Europe through marriages of convenience or sham civil partnerships. The...

ND Officials Criticize Government for Missing Civil Servants Hired to Work in Hot-Spots

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...

Civil Servants' Union Federation ADEDY Calls Strike and Rally Next Thursday

The civil servants' union federation  announced a rally in Klafthmonos Square on Thursday at 11 a.m., on the same day that it has declared a 24-hour general strike. ADEDY's strike action was decided in response to the negotiations between the...

Government Tables Mobility Bill for Civil Servants

The ministry of administrative reconstruction submitted on Friday night a draft bill introducing a new system of voluntary mobility for civil servants. The main elements of the bill are its voluntary character as well as the fact that employees will...

Greek Government to Recruit 20,000 Civil Servants

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras looks to make changes to the constitution as well as initiate a hiring spree of some 20,000 civil servants over the coming year. As the Greek PM tries to revive the spirit and atmosphere of Greece's public...

Greek Education Min Proposes to Legalize 2,500 Civil Servants With Fake Degrees

The proposal of Greek Education Minister Nikos Filis to legalize 2,500 public sector employees who were hired using forged school degrees has caused an uproar among opposition parties. Reportedly, Filis stated that the 2,500 people who had been hired in...

Greek Interior Minister Announces Legislation to Stop Law-Breaking Civil Servants from Returning to Jobs

The Greek government will soon introduce legislation to stop public-sector employees found guilty of serious transgressions or even criminal actions from returning to their jobs while their case is being processed, Interior Minister Panagiotis Kouroumblis told the radio station...

Ministries Pledge to Speed up Work of Disciplinary Councils for Civil Servants

Greece’s Administrative Reform and Labor ministers announced they will speed up the work of disciplinary councils handling pending cases of hundreds of civil servants accused of crimes or misdemeanors, following a meeting earlier in the day. Alternate Minister for Administrative...

Greek Civil Servants Transfer 1.5 Billion Euros Abroad

Greek authorities are to investigate 5,260 Greek civil employees for transferring almost 1.5 billion euros to foreign banks between 2010 and 2014. According to the figures presented by the Administrative Reform Ministry, half of the civil servants and their relatives to be...

2,000 Greek Civil Servants Stashing Money Overseas

Slowly but surely, an investigation into some 54,000 money transfers from crisis-stricken Greece to foreign banks during the economic recession has identified around 2,000 civil servants who seem to have sent money overseas – sometimes as much as 700,000 euros. Transfers...

Greeks Griping More About Civil Servants

Greece's ongoing economic crisis has given Greeks more to be sour about,  especially the lack of service in public offices, with the country's Ombudsman reporting a 26 percent increase in the numbers complaining about public administration. That was the finding...