The Greek government has decided to amend the decision of wage cuts as unconstitutional and thus vindicate magistrates and judges.
According to the Report of the Treasury of Greece , wage costs will be adjusted upwards and the payment of arrears of salary and pension litigation will bring about an annual expenditure of about 170 million euro. The cuts were imposed in August 2012 with the law draft “Adoption Medium Term Financial Strategy 2013-2016 – Urgent Measures on Application of Law 4046/2012 and the Medium Term Financial Strategy 2013-2016 ‘.
However, as stated above, the expenditure has already been scheduled at the recent Medium Term Financial Strategy 2015-2018 and therefore does not invalidate the plans of the Ministry of Finance.

Specifically, the amount of 49.4 million euro concerns the annual cost of rising wages (adjusted to pre- August 2012 levels), and the 20.16 million euro the respective pension adjustment.

Also a pump sum of 99.76 million euro has been estimated resulting from for the newly established arrears of salary and the new increased pension figures .
The following amendments,according to detailed charts, are to take place:

President of the Supreme Court and relevant:

Basic Salary: 4,134 euro from 3,023 euro

Vice President and respective offices: 3,721 euro from 2,880 euro

Supreme Court and respective offices: 3,307 euro from 2,525 euro

Appeals Judges and respective offices: 2,894 euro 2,258 euro

President of the Court and respective offices: 2,480 euro from 2,009 euro

Magistrate and respective offices: 2,067 euro from 1,778 euro

President of the Court and respective offices: 1,654 euro from 1,511 euro

Magistrate D class 1,488 euro from 1,369

Voultepsi: The amendments will not apply to MPs
After the public announcement of the provocative amendment by which the salaries of judicial officers return to pre-crisis levels and even lump sum payment of all arrears of sums lost by judges, government’s spokeswoman was quick to assure that the adjustment will not apply to the Members of Parliament..

“On the issue created by the adjustment of the allowances of the judicial officers, due to court decisions, the mandate of the Prime Minister is that it will not apply to MPs”, said government spokeswoman Sophia Voultepsi.

This statement means that no relevant mandate allowing further readjustments is to be set to vote in the Greek Parliament.

Nevertheless,by Mr Samaras’ word, MP’s already in pension hold the legal right of appeal in order to claim a respective pension raise.This stems from their already established constitutional right to receive as high a salary as Supreme Court judges do.