Most of them were forced to enter the pre-pension status
The implementation of early retirement for public servants via the
pre-pension status starts today and more than 15.000 employees have been
asked to stay home.
Most of them were forced to enter the pre-pension status, but there
were many who did so voluntarily and are leaving their posts, where
they had been occupied for more than thirty years.
Such a measure is being implemented for the first time in the
history of the modern Greek State without the addition of other public
servants and therefore in the coming months, the State will be asked to
cover the gaps. The administrative reform ministry’s aim is to cut
public expenses by 30%, thus the vacant posts will be eliminated, never
to be filled again.
Both redundancy and the pre-pension status concern those public
servants who are already retired, either for an indefinite period in the
first case or permanently in the second. Dimitris Reppas and Evangelos
Venizelos thought it was socially justifiable to provide a solution to
the Troika’s demand for layoffs without damaging the younger generations
of employees.
The Troika agreed to this solution and layoffs are expected to
exceed 30.000 and even reach 50.000, which despite these measures will
include retirements, layoffs etc.
Those leaving today will enter the pre-pension status for two years, until 2013, and will receive 60% of their salary.
4.000 of them are already up for retirement and will retire
normally. Redundancy will commence on 1/1/2012 and is expected to be
completed by early February.
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