He called it small-party and short-sighted PASOK-Movement for Change the decision of the Council of Ministers for a productivity bonus in the State.

With their joint statement, Evangelia Liakoulissecretary of KO and head of KTE Interiors and n Efi Stephopoulousecretary of Public Administration of PASOK-Movement for Change, point out:

* Civil servant pay has fallen by more than 25% since the crisis.

* The number of civil servants has also decreased without a corresponding reduction and better organization of the work that those who remain in the State are called upon to carry out.

* The pilot application of the bonus system at Public implemented by the government, turned out to be yet another tool of clientelistic manipulation of the civil service, in the hands of its party members.

* Civil servants will not receive an Easter gift for another year.

* 2025, when the civil servant bonus promised today by the prime minister will be implemented, is 8 months away, the government has decided that it is the most appropriate time to announce the horizontal implementation of the productivity bonus.

“From her short-sighted small-party point of view, it is indeed… the right time.

Just as her last year’s pre-election study was correspondingly short-sighted to speed up the written competition for the Civil Service recruitments, with the result that today, more than 1 year later, a few thousand successful candidates are hostages – trapped in terms of time or even the possibility of their appointment “, they added.

They added that “the productivity bonus is a welcome means of strengthening professionalism in the State. But the government is using it as a pre-election propaganda.”

As the two executives of PASOK-KINAL noted, “professionals must be paid well, and not with the steep increases of 40 euros or the bonuses that the government gives as pre-election charity.

The purchasing power of public sector workers, who suffered, among other things, the loss of their 13th and 14th salary must be restored and, above all, the discrediting of the public sector that has opened the door to all kinds of private interests, which they harm the State by degrading the quality of the services provided to the citizen”.