Time for dismissals and paycuts in the public sector

The… “night of the long knives” has arrived since in tomorrow’s cabinet meeting called by the Prime Minister, the issues of the unified pay scale and public sector employee redundancies will be discussed.

Under the weight of Merkel’s aversion that “if the country wishes to stay in the euro, it must do what has been agreed”, the government realises that there is no room for any delay or alteration of the Troika demands.

With the unified payroll, a dramatic cut of salaries of around 20% is expected, specifically for employees in “privileged” services such as tax offices, customs, etc. These settings are moving along the lines of “equal pay for equal skills, independent of status and service”, while government sources disagreeing with ADEDY and syndicates are stating that 80% of employees will remain untouched.

With the institution of labour redundancy, around 30000 people are “hung out to dry”, who will be judged as reserves and be led towards dismissal after the abolition of the posts they occupy.

These interventions are included in the measures which the Government aims to generate in order to save 7 billion in public insurance funds, for the implementation of which guarantees have been offered to the Troika.