The government is gradually activating the incentive and reward system for civil servants (productivity bonus) after the relevant discussion in a recent cabinet meeting.
The implementation of the measure will be on a pilot basis and concerns approximately 50,000 employees. Then if it is considered that it enhances the productivity of employees in critical areas, such as the implementation of budgetary targets and the absorption of EU resources, there is an intention to extend it to additional strategic objectives.
Interior Minister, Makis Voridis, in his statement to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA-MPA), said: “The establishment of the reward process in the state is a milestone in our effort to overturn the mentality of egalitarianism, a mentality that was imposed by the left and dominated for years in the public administration. Whether you work a little or work a lot, you will be paid the same, you will develop the same. This dogma kept the entire state fixed for decades and contributed the most to the creation of the entanglements and pathologies that we are confronted with every day.”
It is precisely this mentality that we are coming to change with the productivity bonus which is now being implemented, he stressed.
SOURCE; ANA-MPA
