ANA – MPA — The government will soon introduce legislation to stop public-sector employees found guilty of serious transgressions or even criminal actions from returning to their jobs while their case is being processed, Interior Minister Panagiotis Kouroumblis told the radio station Real FM on Thursday.
Kouroumblis admitted that the affair did not create the best impressions, noting that it “higlights the administration’s inability to act promptly and dependably.”
“There is a time limit in which these disciplinary actions must be carried out and concluded. We cannot leave things like this,” he said, adding that he had spoken with Alternate Minister for Administrative Reform Christoforos Vernardakis and they agreed on the need to immediately pass legislation that will prevent such employees from returning to their work until the disciplinary proceedings against them were concluded.
He said that an ordinance will be tabled in Parliament as soon as sessions begin.
