French Civil Service

The government is preparing to honor a pledge to offer permanent status to civil servants in key posts of the public sector, Kathimerini understands, with legislation boosting their rights expected to head to Parliament soon.

Civil servants will be allowed to return to and work in their place of origin as part of the government's voluntary mobility scheme devised to enable the voluntary transfer of public sector workers to departments suffering from staff shortages.

Alternate Minister for Administrative Reform Giorgos Katrougalos on Monday distributed documents to journalists that he says prove he did not stand to personally profit from rehiring sacked civil servants.

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Minister of Regional Development and Public Administration on Thursday said the first projects under the 2014-2020 operational programme administrative capacity will likely be launched this April.

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Alternate Minister for Administrative Reform Giorgos Katrougalos and his aides are drafting two bills aimed at overhauling the civil service, but in a different way to the previous government?s troika-mandated streamlining, with thousands of rehirings in the cards.

A new evaluation scheme for civil servants will be unveiled by the government before the end of the year, Administrative Reform Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told Sunday’s Kathimerini.

Administrative Reform Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday sent Supreme Court prosecutor Efterpi Koutzamani the details of five mayors who have refused to provide the government with data for the evaluation of civil servants.

Tensions between the government and SYRIZA on the thorny issue of an evaluation scheme for the civil service demanded by the troika intensified Monday with Administrative Reform Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis suggesting that prosecutors might be enlisted to ensure that civil servants comply with the evaluation process in the public sector and rebuking Attica’s new SYRIZA-affiliated governor, Rena

An Athens court of first instance on Thursday deemed illegal and abusive a decision by the ADEDY civil servants’ union to prevent its members from taking part in an evaluation process, prompting the government to underline its determination to complete the assessment.