Supreme Council for Civil Personnel Selection

While there is growing interest on the part of potential employees to apply for local authority positions, when it comes to the time of appointment, it is estimated that one in two turn their backs on the public sector.

"The public sector does not attract," wrote president of the state's Supreme Council for Civil Personnel Selection (ASEP) Thanos Papaioannou in a post.

There appears to be no end in sight to the dubious achievements that the minister of education boasts of, just as there seems to be no end to the list of so-called initiatives advertised by his ministry.

A bill currently being drafted by the Administrative Reform Ministry and expected to be submitted to Parliament within the month aims to introduce a four-year plan for recruitments in the civil service, the latest in a series of apparent attempts by the government to win support ahead of elections next year.

Greece will be announcing 10,000 new state sector jobs in 2019, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said Thursday in the wake of the announcement Tuesday of a tentative deal with the Church of Greece.

Greece will be hiring 10,000 new civil servants in 2019, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said Thursday in the wake of the announcement Tuesday of a tentative deal with the Church of Greece.

The Supreme Council for Civil Personnel Selection (ASEP), which is responsible for public sector hirings, on Thursday denied claims that it handed confidential files to ministers containing the names and professional qualifications of candidates for dozens of general secretariat posts.

New Democracy's shadow minister of administrative reform, Giorgos Georgantas, on Wednesday revealed documents to back repeated claims that ministers in the leftist-led government have been made privy to the names and qualifications of candidates for dozens of key posts at general secretariats, violating the confidentiality of the process.

An amendment was approved by Parliament on Tuesday which allows ministries and other public bodies to hire cleaning and security staff on short-term contracts of up to 18 months, rather than the current eight months. 

Speaking at the Benaki Museum in Athens earlier this week to present the "National Strategy for Administrative Reform," Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced plans for more hirings in the public sector through the Supreme Council for Personnel Selection (ASEP), "as of mid-2018." I wonder who, if anyone, felt encouraged by his promise?

The government plans to introduce an amendment that will allow thousands of municipal contract workers to be hired on a permanent basis via the Supreme Council for Civil Personnel Selection (ASEP), Minister of State Christoforos Vernardakis said in an interview Monday.