Petroupoli: 13 hires with eleven-month contracts

The Municipality of Petroupoli has announced the hiring of thirteen people on fixed-term private-law employment contracts. The positions are for graduates of secondary and compulsory education, meaning holders of a high school or middle school leaving certificate, and fall under the category of contracts paid from fees and other charge-based revenue. The contracts cannot start before 1 September 2026, while their duration runs up to eleven months and in no case can exceed 31 July 2027. The announcement was published over the weekend, a few weeks before the contracts are due to begin.

The method for submitting applications is described in detail in the announcement. Interested parties may submit their application in person, through a third party with an authorisation certified by a public authority, or by registered mail. The competent office is the Directorate of Administrative Services, specifically the Administrative Department, at the municipality’s registry, with the relevant contact telephone numbers made public. The announcement’s protocol number and the exact submission deadline are not stated in the available announcement and should be checked via Diavgeia and the municipality’s website. Applicants are urged to carefully check the required supporting documents, as gaps in the file are the most common cause of rejection in this type of procedure, especially when the deadline is short.

Fee-based contracts traditionally cover services funded by the fees or revenue of the activities in which the employees work, such as sports and cultural facilities, nurseries or municipal conservatories. Renewal is not provided for, meaning the same positions are re-advertised every year, a practice that has been criticised by local-government union bodies as a form of permanent precariousness. Scoring in such announcements mainly takes into account time spent unemployed, local residency and family status.

The announcement is part of a wider wave of fixed-term hiring being launched by Attica’s municipalities ahead of the new school and sports season. Earlier in August, the Municipality of Athens had announced eleven hires at Community Centres, while the Municipality of Spata-Artemida announced nineteen positions through the programme for unemployed people over 55. More from the area on the Petroupoli page. The Municipality of Petroupoli has a population of just over 58,000 and is one of the densely populated municipalities in the western part of the Attica basin. Interested parties can find the full text of the announcement, with the specialisations, required qualifications and exact deadline, on the municipality’s website and on Diavgeia. The non-renewable nature of these contracts means the same services are staffed by different people each year, with the implications this has for continuity and staff experience.