Our View: Increasing pay for contract soldiers can’t be back door to civil service

Boosted pay and service benefits will be offered by the defence ministry to make the job of national guard private more attractive, according to press reports. The national guard is finding it difficult to sign up men on contracts to cover its operational needs.

According to a report in Phileleftheros, the government decided that the new contract soldiers (Syop) would be hired on a higher wage and would be entitled to an annual pay increment, “which creates a clearer framework of wage...