Petition against salary cuts

First Published:	23/07/2010 12:23:58
An appeals court judge on Wednesday filed a petition with Greece's Salary Court to cancel pay cuts imposed by the Greek government as unconstitional and contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights. The judge was protesting to cuts in the benefits and special compensation paid to justices, as well as the reductions in the 13th and 14th salaries. According to the judge, his annual gross earnings of 71,764 euros were cut by 15,432.59 euros. He also argued that the cuts to judges' salaries were based on the country's fiscal state and inability to borrow and not for the general public or national interest. For this reason, legislators had no right, according to the judge, the cuts were counter to the ECHR that prevented legislators from removing rights such as salaries except for reasons of public interest or benefit, which he claimed was not fully satisfied by fiscal benefit. Finally, he pointed to articles in the Greek Constitution concerning the protection of labour and salary, as well as the protection of the "citizen's justified trust in the State".
Source:  Athens News Agency http://www.ana.gr

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