Following the meeting of troika and Mitsotakis

The Administrative Reform Ministry refuses to accept a new mobility program with quantitative targets of layoffs - Troika proposed to connect the new layoffs with the mobility program.
 
Troika insists on new layoffs in 2015 after its meetings with Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Deputy Minister Evi Christophilopoulou. Beyond the issue of layoffs the two sides agreed in the remaining subjects (mobility timeline and structural changes).
 
Layoffs for 2015 and specifically whether there will be a connection of the new mobility program with forced exits from the public sector or not, remain the basic problem of negotiation. The Administrative Reform Ministry refuses to accept a new mobility program with quantitative targets on layoffs. It says that this would undermine the structural changes to be undertaken in the coming period as well as the status of permanent mobility. In contrast, the troika proposed to link new layoffs with the mobility program. It cites the agreement of the Greek government in 2012, when there was convergence on a new mobility program in 2014. If the Greek side backs off and agrees to troika’s demands, some of the public officials that will be suspended, in addition to the 25,000 already agreed, will be taken away from the public sector.
 
The Greek side has proposed a new mobility program of officials without layoffs but with transfers and secondments from across the public sector.
 
Regarding the 4,000 civil servants waiting to be suspended, both sides agreed to advance the procedures later this year.
 
According to information, the issue of layoffs will be examined in the coming days at the highest political level, as the Administrative Reform Ministry and the troika appear steadfast in their positions.