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Public sector layoffs will be concluded by year's end

Public sector layoffs will be concluded at the end of 2014, according to administrative reform minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who added that the public sector layoffs "have been allocated throughout the year and will be concluded at the end of 2014.”

"The layoffs are part of the country’s obligations towards its lenders"the mmiister told ‘Athina 98.4’ radio station. He pointed out that the aim of employees leaving the public sector was the renewal of personnel. 

He added that “we are continuing the evaluation of all private legal entities to see how we can save on resources.”

“For the first time, the hiring process is being conducted under the supervision of the Administrative Reform ministry, which receives the ministries requests, evaluates them and links them to the government’s priorities, such as hirings in the health sector and the tax collection mechanism,” he said.