Plan to curb skiving and fraud in the civil service

As part of a broader overhaul of the civil service that Greece has pledged to its foreign creditors, Administrative Reform Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday heralded plans for more efficient disciplinary councils handling the cases of public sector workers accused of offenses and the intensification of inspections on employees who are unjustifiably absent from their work and who entered the civil service with fake education certificates.