French Civil Service

Evaluating the work of civil servants is a decades-old demand of Greek society and a pre-election promise of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. It has to be done, despite the fact that employees are - naturally - reacting. It is not only trade unionists who have their own, usually oppositional, agenda. It is also the ordinary employees who are afraid.

The planning for the new salary system for civil servants, which New Democracy has promised, is oriented toward increases that will exceed 10% for low-paid workers and will be limited to 2-3% for high-paid workers.

Policewoman Simona Radeva from "First Police Station-Sofia" has been temporarily removed from her position, the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced. She is said to have helped Georgi Semerdzhiev, who caused the accident on "Cherni Vrah Boulevard" in the capital, in which two young women died.

As the civil service strives to return to normal functioning, the country's Interior Ministry has issued guidelines that will come into force today for safeguarding workers and members of the public who have business with the public sector.

The government has released its revised plan on the implementation on the church-state agreement agreed to by PM Alexis Tsipras and Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece, following a meeting between Education, Research, and Religious Affairs Minister Kostas Gavroglu and the church's committee on dialogue with the state.

A quarter of employed people in Greece describe themselves as sales assistants, farmers or office workers. Civil servants, retail commerce staff (excluding sales assistants) and social service workers also comprise a quarter of the total number of poeple employed, a new report shows.

The Constitutional Court on Dec. 13 unanimously rejected a local court’s demand to cancel a regulation in the Civil Servants Law banning Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet) personnel from involvement in politics.

The ADEDY civil servants' union has called on all its members to protest government plans for an evaluation of all public sector workers.

The union is planning several protest rallies around the country on Tuesday and is encouraging members to launch their own actions expressing their opposition to the evaluations, which is likely to lead to demotions and dismissals.

Public sector employees shout slogans during a demonstration against a public sector staff evaluation bill in Klafthmonos Square in Athens. Parliament was due to vote Tuesday on an amendment drafted by the government in a bid to complete the stalled performance evaluation of civil servants.

The Administrative Reform Ministry is seeking a new way to conduct assessments of the country's civil servants, one of a barrage of reforms demanded by Greece's international creditors, as the implementation of the current system is being stymied by the public sector workers' union, ADEDY, and the municipal employees' union, POE-OTA.