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In line with its commitments to the EU-ECB-IMF troika, the government in Athens has given the greenlight to plans to restructure the country’s public service. Close to 6,800 workers, from a total of 14,242 who will have their status changed by the end of September, have been placed in a “mobility” scheme. Some 4,400 others were already placed in the scheme at the end of July.
Ta Nea reports that employees targeted by the restructuring are surplus staff from government ministries — notably from the ministries of health and education — and adds that the government plans to change the status of 1,700 more than the figure initially announced “so as not to be caught unprepared by the next troika evaluation.”
Under the terms of the agreements concluded with the troika, 25,000 civil servants will be transferred, have their pay cut by 25 per cent, or be laid off before the end of this year, in the largest initiative of its kind to be undertaken in Greece's recent history.
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