The Troika insists on sacking people!

Critical contacts are being made between ministers and the Troika since early morning, since the latter must have completed their evaluation by Monday. A meeting between Finance Minister Ev. Venizelos and Minister Dimitris Reppas is under way, after the Troika representatives departed a while ago.

Auditors seek convincing answers on the payroll, reserve and redundancies included in the bill being prepared by the Ministers.

The meeting took place at the offices of the Vice Presidency, on Zalokosta Street, since both respective Ministries are blockaded by employees.

On the hot topic of redundancies – reserves, the scenarios under scrutiny are:

- All employees who have completed their pensionable years are forced to go on retirement and will remain in service for two years, based on last year’s arrangement by the Labour Ministry.

- Qualifying for reserve status, and hence for the ASEP evaluation, with payment of 60% of their basic salary for 1 or 2 years for all employees who need the corresponding years to retire.

- Qualifying for reserve status for employees hired during the last decade outside ASEP. The difficulties this scenario poses are that the process of “tenure” of at least some employees recruited outside ASEP went through the organization’s process after Presidential Decree 164/2009 by former Interior Minsiter Pr. Pavlopoulos.