The civil servants appealed to the Administrative Courts and request the reinstatement of the 13th and 14th salary that were cut by law 4093/2012. At the same time, they submitted an application to the Council of State requesting that their lawsuit be entered and tried in the Supreme Court of Cassation as a standard trial.

In more detail, an employee of the Ministry of Education filed a lawsuit at the Administrative Court of First Instance of Athens and at the same time ADEDY filed an additional intervention in his favor.

With the lawsuit, they request the restoration of the Christmas and Easter gifts and the summer leave allowance, but also to recognize the State’s obligation to retroactively pay the 13th and 14th salary of the two years 2023 and 2024.

According to the lawsuit, the non-reinstatement of the gifts and the summer vacation allowance is contrary to constitutional provisions, the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, the Individual Labor Law Code (p.d. 80/2022) and the European Directive 2022/2041 /EU on adequate minimum wages in the European Union which mandates equal treatment of private sector workers and public sector, regarding the assurance of an adequate and fair minimum wage which guarantees their decent living.

In particular, ADEDY and the civil servant, through their lawyer Margaritas Panagopoulou, request that the 13th and 14th salary be reinstated to the level set by Article 9 of Law 3205/2023 and that the regulation of Law 4093/2012 be repealed twelve years later its vote.

It is also stated that it is necessary to equalize the minimum wages of workers in the EU member states in accordance with Directive 2022/2041/EU, regardless of whether they belong to the public or private sector and at the same time that the favorable arrangements for private employees must apply and for civil servants.

Furthermore, it is stated in the lawsuit that the legislator’s failure to reinstate the benefits is against the constitutional principle of equality in the distribution of public burdens and the state’s obligation to ensure social rights and the social rule of law.

Finally, it is argued that the failure to restore the 13th and 14th is contrary to the constitutional commitment to respect human dignity, but also to the equal fulfillment of the debt to social and national solidarity, they conclude in the application for annulment.