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Εmployees at the Greek Culture Ministry will launch a 24-hour strike on April 25, 2023 to protest a law turning five of the most important museums in the country. Employees strike aims to protest the law that changes the status of five major museums from public to private entity. These …

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Greece’s public administration is lifting the measure of teleworking for state employees and citizens will be able to access the public services again, even without previous appointment. According to a circular issued by the Interior Ministry, public services will be fully operational with the personal presence of all the staff …

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The Greek government on Thursday announced a 3.3-billion-euros package of additional support measures for enterprises and workers hit by the introduction of a second round of a lockdown in the country beginning Saturday. The measures include: a one-off financial support of 800 euros for workers whose contracts are suspended by …

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22 people have been infected with Covid-19 in a nursing home in Thessaloniki, the second in the same city in northern Greece within a week. 15 of the infected are elderly and 7 are employees. Broader tests were immediately ordered after an 80-year-old developed fever on Tuesday. The management of …

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The Athens International Airport (AIA) has announced that it will offer coronavirus (Covid-19) testing, upon request, to the arriving or departing travellers and Athens airport staff as of Wednesday, August 5, 2020. The initiative will be carried out in cooperation with the Athens Medical Center and with the aim to deal effectively …

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The coronavirus crisis has dramatically hit the Greek labor market and allows companies to operate on staff’s rotation work thus cutting employee’s salaries by 50%. Employers can also suspend workers’ contracts. The Greek government issued a legislative act that allows employers and corporations to introduce a new system of rotational …

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A financial aid of 800 euros for employees, suspension of tax and social security contributions and VAT decreases for goods related to coronavirus protection are among the economic measures announced by the Greek government on Wednesday. The package of financial measures to fight recession caused by the pandemic is worth …

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Eight out of ten Greek employers looking to hire cannot find employees. In a global survey, Greece has ranked 3rd in the world in the difficulty of finding the right staff for 2019. Nearly 8 in 10 employers in Greece find it difficult to get the right staff, the  Manpower …

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The landscape of Greece’s four systemic banks is set to change  as 38,000 bank employees will have to make important and difficult decisions about their future: they will have to voluntarily join the exit programs and seek other job opportunities elsewhere. The outsourcing of non-performing loans and the development of …

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Some employers made their threats come true: they fired employees who refused to return the Christmas bonus. This unprecedented case occurred in Larissa, Central Greece. Five workers filed complaint to the local Labor Inspection department saying that they were fired because they did not comply with the employer’s demand to …

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Employees at the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) are among the 19 people the Greek Police arrested for having formed a gang that was stealing railway equipment estimated worth of 7 million euros. Eight OSE workers – a manager and several employees  but also an employee at the Greek Public Power …

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  Reforms with serious side effects. A new society class has emerged in Greece of the economic crisis: the Working Poor. Skilled women and men, mostly university graduates, who work their way through with bad paid jobs. The working poor are working people whose incomes fall below a given poverty …

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Τhe ministry of labor submitted in parliament on Tuesday evening a draft bill on a series of measures designed to protect labor rights. The bill aims especially to tackle undeclared, under-declared and unpaid labor as well as the issue of delayed salary and wages payments. among others the bill allows …

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The failure to pay the employees’ earned salary, albeit in the long run,  sufficient by itself to establish the notion of  the harmful change in the terms of the employment contract. This is what judges in Greece’s Supreme Court ruled this week. Harmful change of employment contract is established when …

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US-based international aid agency Mercy Corps suspended two employees until an investigation conducted by Greek authorities concludes. The investigation follows claims that workers at the NGO had sexually harassed migrants in Greece’s reception centers and had misused funds aiming to the welfare of refugees and migrants. “Mercy Corps is investigating …

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Two out of ten Greeks paid 80% of the total income taxes last year. At the same time poverty increases: more than 340,000 households declared zero income for the tax year 2015. Data released on Thursday by the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE) shows the stifling tax burden and …

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Mafia-style practices in Greece’s labor market: employers hire people with criminal records to extort part of their employees’ salaries. An incredible denouncement has been made by the Association of Private Sector Employees. Workers go to ATMs in the escort of employers’ henchman and give back to employer part of their …

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The International Monetary Fund want the annual tax free income for employees and pensioners to fall down to just 3,500 euro from currently 8.636 euros. This is reportedly one of the IMF’s conditions in order to participate in the Greek program. According to the front page of financial news newspaper …

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The sharing economy benefits its creators, but this may be at the expense of those who do the work or provide the service — as well as the broader economy. The real reasons for the sharing economy are simple. The existing industries targeted by these platforms are frequently inefficient. Over …

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The dramatic shrinkage of the earning due to recession, explosion of unemployment and dominance of flexible forms of employment is being reflected in a document submitted by an experts’ committee to Greek Labor Ministry. The document featured detailed data on wages inequality during the period 2010-2015 and exposes a new …

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