ministry which is tasked with planning the layoffs.
Hospital workers, who had earlier protested outside the health ministry, carried a banner calling Greece’s international bailout deal “harmful to your health”.
“Take these measures and go away,” read another held by museum staff.
Athens has pledged to cut 4 000 state sector jobs this year and 11 000 in 2014 to qualify for 8,8 billion in EU-IMF loans next month.
The European Union and the International Monetary Fund have committed a total of 240 billion in rescue loans to Greece since 2010, obliging the heavily indebted country to pursue austerity measures in exchange for the aid it needs to avoid bankruptcy. — AFP.



