The federation of university administrative employees has announced that it has extended its strike for the seventh week running, until the 25th of October. At the same, many employee unions and computer experts have revealed that the Ministry of Education’s website, where employees have been called to register their details for review, is unsecured and open to abuse.
Meanwhile the Ministry has asked administrative employees who are uncertain about important details such as years of administrative experience or the result of prior evaluations, to fill out the forms regardless and simply note that they have doubts about the data in question. The Ministry made this clarification since administrative employees do not have access to their records, since the relevant offices remain closed due to the ongoing strike.
Employee unions from the National Technical University of Athens have appealed to the Authority for Privacy of Communications (ADAE) about the lack of security measures on the government website. The unions report that data is not encrypted and many other security measures are non-existent.
Furthermore, the website lacks the relevant legal declarations of data privacy and no personalized passwords are used to access employee profiles. This means that anyone couple potentially edit employee data, with unions arguing that the Ministry cannot possibly act as a formal declaration with legal status.
The Ministry of Education’s deadline for registration on the government website is on Tuesday. The Ministry has announced that any administrative employees who fail to register will automatically be put into suspension.
