Greece

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

After the demand of Greece's lenders for staff reduction in the public sector, it appears that the Greek government managed to decrease the number of civil servants. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Minister of Administrative Reform, reported that Greece is likely to recover...

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...

A protest by Greek city and town officials who are refusing to compile a list of workers to be laid off and eventually fired has become more intense, as the Ministry of Administrative Reform keeps pressing for the names...

Greek Interior Minister Yannis Ragoussis hinted at longer working hours for civil servants, whose union has already voiced opposition to such a move, in an interview published Saturday, AFP reported. Asked by the daily Kathimerini if state employees might have...

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...

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...

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...

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...

There's no end to strikes in Greece. Along with the 48-hour strike that the Panhellenic Pharmaceutical Association has announced for Monday 10 and Tuesday 11 of March, the Greek Civil Servants’ Confederation (ADEDY) has also called strikes to protest...

Following the decision of the Council of the State, Greece's highest administrative court, that the wage cuts imposed on members of the armed forces and emergency services in 2012 were unconstitutional and should be fully reimbursed, the Greek government fears that...