Here comes the hard part: Greek workers on purge list
The plan creates a "labour reserve" allowing state workers to be placed on partial pay and be dismissed after a year.<br /><br /> <br /><br />
Athens: The Greek Cabinet approved a measure on Sunday to begin reducing the number of state workers, a contentious part of an austerity plan aimed at freeing up EU and IMF loans.
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The plan creates a "labour reserve" allowing state workers to be placed on partial pay and be dismissed after a year. The government has said it would put 30,000 workers in the reserve by the end of this year.
"The labour reserve measure was approved unanimously," a deputy minister who participated in a cabinet meeting told Reuters on condition of anonymity while the Cabinet meeting was still under way.
Reuters
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