Are 4,351 civil servants anything to fret about?

The Inspectors-Controllers Body for Public Administration (SEEDD) reported this week that there are 4,351 disciplinary cases pending against public sector employees. According to a report in Kathimerini on Thursday, disciplinary councils have still not been formed in many of the state's agencies and where they do exist, they hold very few sessions. As a result, employees who are under investigation for a range of offenses continue to work as usual in the civil service. Discipline in the state sector was put on the back burner when Giorgos Katrougalos was appointed labor minister and reintroduced a measure that allowed unionists to sit on disciplinary councils.

Sure, this may appear as a minuscule problem compared to all the others the country is facing. Are 4,351 civil servants anything to get hot under the collar about? But the truth is that this minuscule problem represents...

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