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Mayor of Volos Suspended from Duty

Businessman and mayor of Volos-Greece, Achilleas Beos, has been officially suspended from his duties, as he is due to stand trial for allegedly being part of a ring that fixed soccer matches when he was the chairman of the...

Police Officers Accused of Stealing

One police officer and three special guards in Greece were suspended for abuse of power, unlawful home invasion, theft and bodily injury, as the Hellenic Police announced on Friday. According to the charges, following a routine check on foreign nationals...

21 Greek Public Sector Bodies May Be Abolished

It is rumored that the Greek Ministry of Administrative Reforms is planning on submitting a new legislative bill that will turn Greece's public sector upside down. The bill includes the abolition of 21 public sector bodies, part of the Ministry's...

Troika Asks the Dismissal of 40% of Suspended Civil Servants

Troika asks the dismissal of 2,000 civil servants for this year, while 15,000 more employees are expected to be fired by next year. Troika seems to have prepared the “recipe” to ensure the dismissal of employees working in the public...

Rectors Keep Resisting Worker Suspensions

The deadline for the administrations of universities to send their files to ASEP with the administrators' names who are going to be suspended, expires on Oct. 9. According to the current situation after the order of the Minister of Education,...

Day Two of ADEDY Strikes

The Civil Servants’ Union, ADEDY, is on the second day of the 48-hour strike it has declared against the plan to suspend and fire public workers. Teachers, employees in insurance funds and the Public Employment Services (OAED), hospital doctors, lawyers...

Thousands Rally Against Suspensions

The big rally that took place on September 18 at Syntagma in Athens, Greece, by the Civil Servants’ Union, ADEDY, where numerous protesters had gathered against the plan to suspend and fire public workers, was converted into an anti-fascist...

Suspension of 25,000 Civil Servants Uncertain?

With two provisional orders issued by the Court of First Instance, two school guards who were suspended can now return to their duties. According to their lawyer, this paves the way for other employees that have been suspended. The school guards...