Facing the challenge of paring back Greece's public workforce

Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greece's minister of administrative reform, discusses the government's plan under which 25,000 civil servants will be moved out of their current jobs.

ATHENS — Greece's Parliament last month approved the first official culling of the country's bloated public sector. The move, opposed by government workers but viewed by many economists as long overdue for an indebted economy, will push 25,000 civil servants into a "mobility scheme," giving them eight months to find work in another state department or get fired.

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