dismissals

On February 2014, Hellenic Halyvourgia company announced the shutdown of its unit in Aspropyrgos and the layoff of 90 from a total of 107 workers.  However, 74 of those workers left under the company's voluntary plan. The decision for...

Greece's Supreme Court Friday ruled in favour the cleaners suspended from the Ministry of Finance, which had appealed a previous ruling to reinstate the janitorial staff, who are continuing their sit-in outside the building while their former employer refuses to give them their jobs back for...

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...

The Greek government is to accelerate its job-cutting measures so as to hit the Troika's target of 11,000 public sector dismissals by the end of 2014. Those at risk of dismissal are those who have been placed in the state's availability-mobility scheme and those suspected of having been hired...

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...

According to the Greek Health Minister, Adonis Georgiadis, the 4,500 doctors of EOPYY, Greece’s main public healthcare provider, will be given the choice of taking up jobs at state hospitals or having their contracts terminated, helping the government meet its...

Speaking to an event organized by the Athens Medical Association on Saturday, the Greek Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis, maintained his position that there will be dismissals in EOPYY, the  main healthcare provider in Greece. Georgiadis had announced that dismissals "might...

Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek Minister of Administrative Reform, during an interview in Vima FM, talked about the 15,000 dismissals in the public sector by the end of 2014, based on the commitments of the Greek government towards the creditors. He also...

The dismissal of 2,000 people in the next 45 days until the end of the year is very difficult, especially without horizontal measures. The case will be extended under negotiations with troika. The Greek side requested to join the layoffs...

The political scenery regarding the dismissals in the public sector seems to be a bit messy. The Minister of Administrative Reform Kyriakos Mitsotakis issued an announcement in order to refute a recent publication according which, the closure of 800...