Tag Archives: hiring

Health Minister Thanos Plevris announced that the Ministry will hire 4,000 nurses and 910 doctors to strengthen the Greek health care system. The Minister made the announcement during a visit of the new health center in Patras, wester Peloponnese on Sunday. He said that the pandemic is at its peak, …

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The Church of Greece wants 4,000 priests on the state payroll and for this purpose it proceed to an unusual move, a first: it invited Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to attend the meeting of the Holy Synod on Monday. The issue is putting the conservative Greek government in a real …

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Just a few hours after the Prime Minister announced a 3-week lockdown, the Health Minister rushed to announce the hiring of 300 doctors for Covid-19 ICUs and the requisition of ICU beds in private clinics and hospitals. A literally last minute move as ICU beds in Attica are occupied at …

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Parliament Speaker Costas Tassoulas revoked on Friday the decision to hire former Golden Dawn MP and wife of the party leader, Eleni Zaroulia. The posting of the temporary position at the Parliament, just a couple of days before the verdict by the Appeals Court triggered furious reactions by opposition parties …

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“Europe is treating first arrival countries like Greece as convenient ‘storage’ for refugees and migrants. Is this European solidarity?” Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an interview with German daily Handelsblatt on Tuesday. At the same time, he announced the hiring of additional personnel to better manage refugees and …

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Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and Minister of Administrative Reform Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou signed the hiring of 10,500 permanent school teachers. Following the signing, Minister of Education, Research & Religious Affairs Kostas Gavroglou sent a request to the state hiring agency (ASEP) to begin immediately all necessary procedures. Teachers will fill …

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Employers in Greece reported the strongest hiring outlook in 11 years in the country, according to the latest survey by the Greek branch of staffing firm Manpower Group, which was released on Tuesday. Employment outlook for the second quarter of this year rose to 21 percent, up from 18 percent …

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The Greek government offers to hire survivors of the July Athens wildfires in the public sector.  With a Ministerial Decree issued on Thursday, exactly one month after the tragedy that cost the life of 96 people,  the government offer jobs to relatives of victims and survivors. That is also to …

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Greece’s Public Power Company hired an artistic director for its choir. It sounds like a bad musical the moment the PPC announced to retrieve retrospectively €735 million euros from electricity consumers as  outstanding debt have reached 2.2 billion euros. In a job opening that run from March 24 to April …

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Armed with camping tents, dozens of elementary school teachers set them up outside the Education Ministry in Athens to protest changes in hiring criteria. They quickly set up their tents blocking the two entrances of the ministry with the effect that the ministry workers could not leave the building when …

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In a surprise move, prime minister Alexis Tsipras addressed the nation on Thursday night and stunned Greeks and creditors alike. The PM announced that he will spend 617million euros in one-off “Christmas bonus” for low-pensioners receiving less than 850euro per month. Further, he announced that the upcoming Value Added Tax …

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Greeks in frenzy for a job at a public hospital. A total of 690 vacancies have been opened for nurses, paramedical professions and administrative staff and thus for graduates of secondary education or vocational schools IEK. And Greeks are storming the electronic applications system to grab one of the very …

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Greek government plans to hire some 14,000 civil servants and thus despite the fact that more than 4,000 were laid off last year and more than 15,000 are to be laid-off this year by the orders of the Troika. Crazy? It depends… According to the governmental recruitment plan obtained by …

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AHA! Greek government found a new word to describe lay-offs in the public sector. They are not ‘lay-offs’ anymore but ‘obligatory exits’. In Greek government plans it comes even better: those 15,000 civil servants to be laid-off until end of 2014, will be replaced by 15,000 new employees! Finance minister Yiannis …

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Samaras’ decision to shut down Greece public broadcast ERT created a lot of enemies. That was expected. And this not only because 2,656 people lost their jobs overnight or because the action has authoritarian features. Moreover it was the attack prime minister Antonis Samaras and government spokesman & minister in …

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