Greek civil servants who used computers for at least five hours a day instead of manual paperwork will lose a perk of six paid days off a year under reforms being undertaken by the government on the orders of international lenders.
The bonus has been eliminated by Administrative Reform and e-Governance Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis who said the law which allowed it, passed 24 years ago in the days before widespread use of computers in Greece, was outdated.
“The public servants’ paid leave for the use of computers is abolished, as it belongs to another era…” he said. “Today, in the time of the crisis, we cannot preserve anachronistic privileges. I believe that the abolition of this leave is a small, but symbolic step for the modernization of public administration.”
The ministerial decision giving a day off every two months to those who sat in front of a computer for more than five hours a day was taken on June 12, 1989, a week before Mitsotakis’s father Constantine was elected as Prime Minister.
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