Supreme Council for Civil Personnel Selection

Greece's Supreme Council for Personnel Selection (ASEP) has announced the hiring of 1,666 people for full-time employment in public hospitals, including positions for nursing staff, pharmacists, chemists, biochemists, midwives and psychologists, among other specialties.

Draft legislation put forward Tuesday by Alternate Minister for Administrative Reform Giorgos Katrougalos foresees some 40,000 workers who were employed at local authorities and state bodies which operate under public law (NPDDs) on open-ended contracts being given permanent deals within the central administration.

The Education Ministry issued a statement on Saturday denying that it aims to scrap the hiring process for secondary education teachers via the Supreme Council for Civil Personnel Selection (ASEP).

Alternate Minister for Administrative Reform Giorgos Katrougalos and his aides are drafting two bills aimed at overhauling the civil service, but in a different way to the previous government?s troika-mandated streamlining, with thousands of rehirings in the cards.