“If an organization that has been collecting 48% of citizens’ complaints concerning the wider public sector for years is not a special case, then what is?” noted the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Kostis Hatzidakisspeaking in Parliament during the discussion of the objection of unconstitutionality submitted by SYRIZA for the bill for the modernization of ΕΦΚΑwhich was rejected.
Referring to the regulation for hiring General Managers and Directors from the private sector provided by the bill, Mr. Hatzidakis stressed that this possibility is provided by the Constitution for the public sector, when there are properly justified special conditions.
“We do not close our eyes to the huge problems of EFKA and the insured, just as the Constitution does not close them, which has special provisions that we use,” he stressed.
He attributed rhetoric of two meters and two stations to SYRIZA which speaks of the unconstitutionality of the relevant regulations in the EFKA bill, while when he was in government he passed a law on the Land Registry which provided for the hiring of a General Manager and Deputy General Managers from the private sector.
“Was there no problem there? If there is unconstitutionality in one case (of the EFKA) does not exist in the other (of the Land Registry)? ” he wondered.
Mr. Hatzidakis also rejected the accusations of “collective recruitment in EFKA by the private sector”, reiterating that “we are not only addressing the private sector, but also the public sector as a whole and the EFKA executives. And much more as there are certain addresses and functions within the Agency for which there is obviously experience in the employees of EFKA that can not be found elsewhere. We are not going to make dogmatic recruitments only from the private sector, indifferent to the real result of this intervention.
The goal is to address the problems of the insured! This requires the interest of the defenseless Greeks who suffer in the queues, wait for years to get their pension, have a series of service problems from EFKA. We are coming to answer these problems, creating a new management team that in a few months will give momentum to this long-suffering Organization “.
“And what are you doing today?” Mr. Hatzidakis asked, addressing the SYRIZA MPs. “You come and take the side of certain minorities within EFKA who think they are affected, at the same time being indifferent – while you say that you care about social policy – for the suffering of millions of Greeks. What we are doing today is social policy in practice! Because we come to give substantial solutions to the problems of our suffering fellow human beings. And that’s why you break your clothes! “
Moving on to the topic of disciplinary boards and internal auditsMr. Hatzidakis revealed that at the moment there are more than 1,100 complaints pending in an organization of 7,500 employees.
“And they are pending, because the disciplinary is operating at a snail’s pace and there are no corresponding services to examine the issues. So what is your problem? That we abbreviate the dates on which the disciplinary proceedings are conducted? Or that we get the trade unionists out of the disciplinary?
Yes, we take the trade unionists out of the disciplinary. It is not the job of the EFKA trade unionists to judge the cases of their colleagues. And we believe this and we emphasize it.
Article 103 of the Constitution you refer to stipulates that 2/3 of the members of the disciplinary council must be permanent civil servants. We envisage a three-member composition, which includes an associate or judicial power of attorney of the Legal Council of the State and a permanent employee of the Single Transparency Authority.
So, two out of three members are civil servants. Yes, permanent civil servants, but not compositions like the ones we have had so far that led to these “brilliant” results. You can accept this image of EFKA, I do not accept it. “I want an EFKA that serves the citizens!”, Concluded the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, closing his position.
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