The perfect crime: Being a civil servant in Greece!

What happens in Greece when an employee is a criminal? If he steals from the company or others, and even if he kills? Well that depends on where he works. Greece is a regime and not a democracy and as in every typical regime its citizens are not all equal before the law. In fact there are different laws that apply to different categories of citizens: the first category which is the public sector employees, and the second category the rest! Lets see what applies to whom.

Greek Private sector employee: Any employee guilty of an offense which is at least a misdemeanor, and if it was committed during work, can be directly fired by his employer WITHOUT ANY COMPENSATION AND NATURALLY WITH AUTOMATIC STOP OF HIS PAYROLL. If (after one, two, three years, etc.) the employee is acquitted by a criminal court, he is entitled to receive severance pay, but without the right to return to his previous job.

Greek Public Sector employee: Any employee guilty of an offense (misdemeanor, felony) which is not obscured by the syndicalist-unionist regime, not only is not fired but he continues to be paid by the state (the Greeks' taxes) normally. In order to even begin discussing the fate of the pay of the criminal civil servant a special disciplinary action procedure must take place.
However the civil servants disciplinary law states that "the disciplinary process is autonomous and independent from criminal or other proceedings". Which means that if the civil servant is caught for a criminal offense, the criminal prosecution will be exercised sometime in the future, then in another time of the distant future (several years later) there is a motion for disciplinary action, if raised at all since the immediate supervisor of the employee, who is responsible for the disciplinary action may cover it up (note that even the law says that the disciplinary body may order the suspension of disciplinary proceedings).
Finally, in the very distant future the case may be brought to the Disciplinary Board, which usually rules that the disciplinary offense has been barred since it took place so many years ago. Only in cases where the employee has been convicted by a criminal court he may be suspended and his salary may be reduced to one third (used to be half till recently).
However it is not so sure that their salaries will be reduced at all, since the law has loophole ready: "The rest of the employee's salary or part of it can be attributed to the employee, upon reasoned decision of the disciplinary board."!
In that way coworkers and unionists can guarantee that a criminal civil servant continues to receive his pay without even working! Is this a harsh punishment or what?!

These days Greece's progress in reforming its public sector is being reviewed by the Troika in order to release the loan installment. In reality Greece has done almost nothing to reform its public sector. After 3 whole years it has failed to realize even ONE major privatization and the Greek taxpayer continues to pay for huge salaries and for public companies that burden him with huge annual deficits. Deficits that the country has to cover by begging the EU and IMF for new (toxic) loans. At this point the European taxpayer pays for greek problematic public organizations and huge salaries of civil servants since the loans given to Greece will never be repaid and O(fficial)S(ector)I(nvolvement) is underway.

In addition instead of firing the hundreds of thousands of civil servants that were hired in the period 2004-2009, the greek government fired noone but instead pushes the older civil servants to retirement so as to present a fake picture of a smaller public sector. Of course this is a huge lie since the money spent for salaries+pensions is more than the money it would spend by firing the clients of the regime hired in masses during the previous years. 

But the most outrageous thing is that the greek government does not want to fire even the criminal civil servants! Troika demands what anyone would demand: to fire the criminals! However the greek government brings obstacles even to this simple demand. Using the legal labyrinth described above, which combined with corrupt civil servants and judges makes it impossible to fire a criminal civil servant, the government pretends that it can't do something about it and the criminals must stay in their positions and continue to be paid by the taxpayer.

There is only one way for the regime to fall. Stop paying the loan installments. Troika and the world should not be accomplices to the greek criminals, they should not be extorted by the greek regime, they should overturn it!

Below is a list of tricks civil servants use to steal billions of euros every year from the state (and the europeans). NOONE was convicted!
http://theteapotgr.blogspot.gr/2013/03/the-top-6-ways-that-civil-servants-in.html