Mr Papademos and heads of the three parties backing his government have already agreed to deep private sector wage cuts, civil service layoffs, and significant reductions in health, social security and military spending.
The conservative lawmaker Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be in charge of administrative reforms and faces the difficult task of pushing through civil service layoffs, which have been demanded by Greece's international creditors.
World First (@World_First) Bank of England should brighten things up soon #ornot July 4, 2013 Updated at 11.41am BST 11.33am BST Developments in Greece (finally) -- administrative reform minister Kyriakos Mitsotak has concluded today's meeting with Troika officials over the vexed issue of civil service layoffs.
When leasing activity did pick up this year, it smacked into a fresh crop of bad economic news, including financial services layoffs in Manhattan and the debt crisis in Europe, not to mention ongoing high-stakes budget talks in Washington.
Sadly, in our view, they abetted, or at least failed to stop, the use of their scholarship by politicians who latched on to their findings — in particular the now discredited 90 percent figure — to call for severe cuts in government budgets and services, layoffs of public-sector employees and tax increases.
He would reduce the number of parks employees and health clinic workers, along with operators of the 311 service, through layoffs and attrition.
Your fiscal problems are too great to be solved solely by a tax increase, or by service cuts, layoffs, union givebacks, efficiencies or gimmicks.
The state budget squeeze is fast becoming a city budget squeeze, as struggling states around the nation plan deep cuts in aid to cities and local governments that will almost certainly result in more service cuts, layoffs and local tax increases.
Instead of trying to "save money" by cutting service with layoffs and closings that cause more customers to turn away, which costs revenue, the Postal Service should add services such as postal banking.
The handful of industries that gained ground included retailing, health services, child care and financial services, despite layoffs at some brokerage houses.
No cuts in services, no layoffs and no new fees are proposed, he said.
