This is a real great news in times of austerity, recession and depression! A great relief for all jobless in Greece. The monthly allowance for unemployed is to increase from 454.25 to 461.5 euro. The amazing amount of €7.25 more per month can supply the jobless with one chicken and a watermelon. This can be indeed a God-given gift for people without hope to get a job. Another option to ‘invest’ the 7,25 euro per month is to save them and have 87 euro when the allowance is over.
In Greece unemployment allowance is given only for one year during the entire working life. The allowance is calculated according to 55% of the minimum wage of an unskilled laborer.
The rise came to power according to the national collective bargain agreement 2010-2012.
The minimum wage stands at 33.57 euro per day.
[cynisme]At least it is an extra chicken and a watermelon…[/cynism]
That’s the ‘positive site’.
But blame the ‘social partners’ who participate year after year in this ‘national collective bargain agreement’ for never ever having coming around to reorganize the unemployment allowances to a standard that is more human.
This is such a joke. I get more money (per month) as a full time university student in Australia in comparison and I can still afford to eat.
Greece has become a joke. Some days I feel embarrassed to even say I am Greek with all this mess being broadcast to the world.
What planet to Greeks in Greece live on and what planet have they lived on for the last century to have this attitude, usually an attitude of entitlement, to not pay taxes nor develop an effective taxation system?
What I have learned from Greeks, whom I’ve met in Australia, is that they think they are entitled to a life of luxury. They don’t like doing manual work. They don’t like to work beneath their (perceived) station in life.
You’d better go to the next ghetto where some of these nations you stole their land of suffer from your civilization and ask for a visum, malaka!
KTG-readers with exquisite culture niveau and broader history knowledge have always amazed me. Is Alexander the Great still alive?
You’ve to get the welfare-system of north-europe when you have to deal with north-european-austerity-shit