Greek parliamentary employees get Bonuses

soterpisc

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_16/12/2011_418830#

The news that parliamentary employees will receive annual performance-linked bonuses, even as staff elsewhere in the civil service as well as the private sector have seen their wages slashed, caused an uproar Friday, with countless citizens telephoning Parliament to express their outrage.
But sources in Parliament told Kathimerini that the bonuses, which were outlined in a budget approved earlier this month, would be smaller than the 15th and 16th annual salaries that parliamentary employees traditionally receive.
According to the same sources, the budget for the bonuses for 2012 has been earmarked at 5.1 million euros, about a third of this year’s 16.9-million-euro budget. In previous years, the budgets were significantly larger -- 20 million euros in 2010, 18 million in 2009, 17.4 million in 2008 and 19.5 million in 2007.
But although the budget for 2012 is a fraction of that in previous years, there will reportedly be no ceiling set on bonuses. This means that next year’s pot of 5.1 million euros will ostensibly be distributed among Parliament’s employees according to their performance, but there is theoretically no limit to what staff can receive. It remains unclear how the performance of employees will be assessed.
Parliament Speaker Filippos Petsalnikos said earlier this week that a total of 1,290 people are employed in the House -- 80 fewer than in 2009.
The perks enjoyed by Parliament’s 300 deputies have also been the cause of public outrage. Among other things, MPs enjoy courtesy cars, fees for attending committee meetings and second pensions for those who practice professions alongside their political careers.

In the light of the recent EBS bonus cut.. interesting to see in Greece that Parliament employees still get them..

Biggins

O' dear, this won't go down well over there.
Mind you, our lot are just as bad at times.

TheZohanS

I wish threads where the article isn't quoted by the OP were just locked and left there.

Kevin Duffy

That makes no sense. It's all Greek to me.

ilovesleep

We'll see how their nation behaves, shall we? Will they revolt more? Something tells me they won't take it lying down easily, unlike us with the very same greedy, abuses happening in power.

44leto

So some people in a distant place get a bonus..

Let's take to the streets and march on the Greek embassy.

OurLadyofKnock

In Greece, as in Ireland there is a Pimp and Ho dynamic between the elites and the civil service.

The Civil Service through all this pampering, is being cultivated into being the bulldogs of the establishment. They will gladly oppress and torment the non government employed citizens whom they have come to see as animals and they themselves as an proto-elite class. The civil service wants to maintain this sense of status and immunity from "normal" economic fluctuations and this will involve demonstrating their loyalty to the elites in Government by pushing their agenda for them.

I do not know about Greece, but as we can see from Ireland - our civil service is nothing but a rubbish tip of undynamic, uncreative and mundane dullards - who would not survive outside the civil service. They are the classic mindless policy enforcing bots a totalitarian society (which Ireland now is under the IMF/EU) requires.

Read Franz Kafka's The Trial for a good insight into the petty snobbery and mediocrity of equilibrum within the psychology of a civil servant which oppressive governments find so useful.

Kevin Duffy

OurLadyofKnock wrote: »

In Greece, as in Ireland there is a Pimp and Ho dynamic between the elites and the civil service.

The Civil Service through all this pampering, is being cultivated into being the bulldogs of the establishment. They will gladly oppress and torment the non government employed citizens whom they have come to see as animals and they themselves as an proto-elite class. The civil service wants to maintain this sense of status and immunity from "normal" economic fluctuations and this will involve demonstrating their loyalty to the elites in Government by pushing their agenda for them.

I do not know about Greece, but as we can see from Ireland - our civil service is nothing but a rubbish tip of undynamic, uncreative and mundane dullards - who would not survive outside the civil service. They are the classic mindless policy enforcing bots a totalitarian society (which Ireland now is under the IMF/EU) requires.

Read Franz Kafka's The Trial for a good insight into the petty snobbery and mediocrity of equilibrum within the psychology of a civil servant which oppressive governments find so useful.

What a lot of bollocks.