“There isn’t any proof to debate the problem of the brand new analysis system for civil servants”
With out knowledge, the dialogue on the problem of the brand new analysis system for civil servants is happening, as these are anticipated to be submitted on the finish of March to the Public Service Fee, which can also be chargeable for evaluating the system, mentioned the Director of the Division of Public Administration, Elena Oikonomidou Azina.
Ms. Azina was talking throughout a session of the Parliamentary Finance Committee on Wednesday that addressed the problem. The guilds reiterated their request that the 2023 evaluation not rely for promotion functions.
Particularly, PASYDY representatives defined their place that the analysis for 2023 be on a trial foundation, noting that it shouldn’t be taken into consideration for promotion functions, as, because of the errors noticed and based mostly on the objections filed, they anticipate that there will likely be many appeals and there will likely be an issue within the correct functioning of the general public service.
Indicatively, they reported that one in ten assessees has submitted an objection to their evaluation. Additionally they talked about that it’s rumored that those that look at the objections are instructed to not see objections of evaluations that obtained a rating above 8, whereas, on the identical time, they don’t have the duty to justify their resolution to look at or to not look at an objection.
Additionally they talked about that as PASYDY, they’d filed a memorandum on June 23 to the President of the Republic and on September 19 to the Minister of Finance, with which they identified the issues that would seem, earlier than the analysis even started, and requested a trial utility from then on.
The Director of the Division of Public Administration, Elena Oikonomidou Azina, mentioned that “a scenario by which everybody was assessed as glorious can’t be perpetuated”. He famous that thus far no formal criticism in regards to the ranking system has been submitted to the division, whereas the method of reviewing the objections is ongoing.
He additionally mentioned that the Public Service Fee is predicted to obtain the evaluations by the tip of March and solely then will there be a whole image, after the method has been accomplished.
He famous that complaints about bias and subjectivity or vindictive conduct is not going to be resolved by a postponement of the appliance of the process, whereas he mentioned that the qualitative standards of the objections must be thought-about, not simply their quantity.
Of their interventions throughout the Committee, the MPs requested for the federal government's intention to take care of the issues heard.
DISY Member of Parliament, Haris Georgiadis, requested if the federal government, at a political stage, considers the issue to be such that it requires some motion on behalf of the Parliament. He mentioned the problem shouldn’t be straightforward and an try to repair the issues could go away others sad. “What we can’t settle for is that all the pieces is ok. It’s not okay,” he mentioned, referring to complaints that got here earlier than him that in some circumstances the three-member committee supplied for the analysis was not fashioned, nevertheless it was carried out by one particular person.
The Member of Parliament of AKEL, Andreas Kavkalias requested if the federal government has an evaluation of what are the errors and inadequacies that appeared with the implementation of the analysis system and, in the event that they exist and are acknowledged, if there’s a proposal for a treatment.
The Member of Parliament of AKEL, Christos Christofides, mentioned that the names which can be mentioned by critically organized teams, akin to commerce unions, have to be taken critically. He mentioned final time there have been complaints of “outrageous and vindictive” conduct and systemic issues. He requested what the official authorities had carried out after listening to these complaints, noting that there was a danger that the system would collapse utterly.
The Member of Parliament of DIPA, Alekos Tryfonidis requested if, because the final time the matter was mentioned in Parliament and the complaints of the commerce unions have been heard, there have been conferences of the competent division with the commerce unions. “The underside line is whether or not the related Ministry and division and state businesses embrace both partially or in complete the considerations and realities of commerce unions,” he mentioned.
The Member of Parliament of the Environmental Motion, Stavros Papadouris, underlined the truth that no written criticism was made to the competent division documenting the complaints in order that they may very well be checked. He mentioned he was involved about who gave the order to enter scores between 5-8 and who ordered that objections above 8 be answered in an agreed upon method, noting that anybody who interferes is against the law. He requested the unions if they’d settle for a freeze on promotions for 2024 to keep away from issues with potential appeals, one thing the unions mentioned they disagreed with.