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 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 plenary session of the State Council will decide whether the General Inspector of Public Administration Leandros Rakintzis remains legally in his position and issues administrative acts despite the fact that his term ended in September 2009. Rakintzis became General...

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 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 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...

With the Troika due to return to Greece immediately after the European elections, the Ministry of Administrative Reform in Athens is trying to catch up with the 11,000 public sector dismissals slated for 2014, lest bailout funds be withheld. Hundreds of contracts expire within months, but thousands more...

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...

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...