Was voted in favor by the House The new disciplinary law for civil servants, expanding disciplinary offenses and penalties. Sweeping are the changes in the disciplinary processas the collective disciplinary bodies are abolished and replaced by a new body of disciplinary infringements that will not be attended by representatives of the workers.
The refusal of an employee to participate in the evaluation, either as an evaluator or as an evaluator, is now a disciplinary offensewhich is punishable by a fine equal to two -month earnings, and can even lead to the definitive dismissal of the employee if he avoids evaluation for two consecutive years.
According to the new disciplinary code, the employee It is set on a holiday after a criminal prosecution for any felony. In addition, the deprivation of personal freedom of employee, for as long as it lasts, is a reason for his position on a self -sufficient holiday.
The new provisions stipulate that those who were fired by the State with the disciplinary penalty of definitive cessation or termination of the employment contract with their fault, can be re -appointed after 10 years instead of 5, which was in force so far. The same will be the case for those who resigned and then were irrevocably imposed the disciplinary penalty of the final cessation, due to the continuation of the disciplinary procedure after the resolution of their employment relationship.
Also added New Disciplinary Penalties:
- Drop the right to granting a salary scale from one to five years,
- deduction up to four wage scales and
- Prohibition of the performance of the Head of Compassionate or by specific provisions for a period of one to five years.
In addition to disciplinary penalties, in some cases there is an additional administrative sanction ranging from EUR 3,000 to EUR 100,000.
Finally, it is introduced into the Disciplinary Law of the State or ‘Disciplinary conciliation’, that the audited employee may request in order to obtain a more favorable penalty. It may be utilized in cases of disciplinary offenses, which do not carry the penalty of definitive cessation and has not been caused by financial damage or the damage caused has been fully repaired by the employee.
New disciplinary body and recruitment of judges
From the new year will start operating the Disciplinary Board of Human Resources Public Sectorwhich replaces the existing Primary Disciplinary Boards and the Secondary Disciplinary Board.
Will consist of by 60 judges, members of the State Legal Council, full and exclusive employmentfor whom the Deputy Minister of Interior Vivi Charalambogiannis told the House that will come from new additional hires.
The new Disciplinary Board will operate in three -member and five -member composition, depending on the severity of the disciplinary case examined And they will not be involved in employees and public executives. A trade union representative will be able to participate in the procedure only by the persecuted official before he is heard to report opinions and leave before the Conference is launched.
According to the government, the replacement of the old disciplinary councils by the new body aims to limit delays in cases of cases, as according to available data, by the end of 2024, about 2,300 disciplinary cases were pending in the 100 primary discipline.
Source: RES-EIA