On issues of the Ministries of National Economy, Labor, Internal and Foreign Affairs, he met today under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the cabinet.
Among the bills presented and approved was the provision for the increase in the minimum wage and the legislative framework for the evaluation of the public and the evaluation of public services by citizens.
In particular, the Minister of Labor and Social Security, Niki Kerameos and the Minister of National Economy and Finance, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, presented to the Cabinet the minimum wage and the minimum wage for employees and craftsmen throughout the country for the year 2025.
Specifically, the minimum wage is increased by 50 euros (6.02%) and is from 830 to EUR 880, while a corresponding increase in the minimum wage from EUR 37.07 to EUR 39.30, with a validity of April 1, 2025.
The total increase in the minimum wage since 2019 amounts to 230 euros a month, ie 35.4%. Greece is now ranked 11th among the 22 countries of the European Union implementing a legislated minimum wage.
The increase directly concerns about 1.6 million beneficiaries, including 575,000 private sector workers, all who receive bonuses linked to the minimum wage – such as maternity, parental license, unemployment and marriage benefits – but for the first time benefit € 70. 2024. The increase in the minimum wage indirectly has increasing the average salary, as has been done in recent years.
Evaluation by citizens
Interior Minister Theodoros Livanios, Minister of Digital Governance, Dimitrios Papastergiou and Deputy Minister of Interior, Friday Charalambogiannis, presented to the Council of Ministers the implementation of the legislative framework (Law 4940/2022) for the evaluation of the public and public service evaluation.
Based on the previous evaluation system, 98% of civil servants were classified as excellent or very adequate employees, while only 284 were described as insufficient or inappropriate in 2022, the last year of its implementation. In 2023, with the implementation of the new evaluation system, of the 166,350 ratings submitted 54,650, they were initially described as high performance employees. The use of artificial intelligence tools 39,394 were rejected because they do not meet the high performance criteria while the remaining 15,259 will be examined by the Evaluation Supervisory Committees (ASEP, NSC and EDA). Correspondingly, 5 times the number of employees (1,390) compared to the previous system, they have been designated as low performance employees. The classification of the supervisors and the employees was on the basis of measurable objectives, specific criteria and skills and using artificial intelligence and mechanical learning tools for the accuracy and loyalty of evaluations.
For 2024, about 180,000 targets have already been registered in total, about 91% of them, and there is only a target for 11% of the measured results. The evaluation process for 2024 has already begun with the number of ratings expected to reach 189,000.
At the same time, with the new initiative of the Ministries of Interior and Digital Governance, the largest rating of public services and bodies of the Central Government, the Regions and Municipalities by the citizens themselves is established and applied for the first time, through a structured electronic questionnaire, Everyone’s everyday life.
This action is expected to be the largest study measurement of public service satisfaction ever, while providing the results of the results per evaluated service, per spatial area (municipality, region, even per PC) and by age group, as well as the existence of comparative indices.
Particularly for Local Government Organizations, which are the first citizen’s contact link with public services, their services evaluate their services is completely complementary to the work of Local Quality Indicators and ultimately to contribute to public accountability.
Checking direct investment
Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis and Deputy Foreign Minister Anastasios Chatzivasiliou presented to the Council of Ministers the Ministry’s bill to take measures for the implementation of Regulation (EU) 2019/452 to establish a framework for the control of immediate foreign investment or foreign investment.
According to the bill, this mechanism will control foreign investments made in sensitive areas of security or public order, such as energy, transport, digital infrastructure, defense, cyber security, artificial intelligence, port and submarine infrastructure.
The adoption of the National ACE Control Mechanism ensures our complete alignment with Union law and, at the same time, protects from the geopolitical risk critical to the country’s security or public order. Finally, Greece becomes even more reliable as a partner and ally but also as an investment destination.