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Covid-sick workers complain employers urge them to go work in violation of health protocols

January 4, 2022 CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED 1

There have been serious complaints that employers in Greece are forcing their employees to go to work thought they are tested positive to Covid-19. According to media, some of the complaints refer to a well-known chain of stores. The employers’ advice to sick employees is “Take a Paracetamol and come …

8 out of 10 Greek employers cannot find the right staff

January 30, 2020 Economy 2

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 …

Workers fired after they refused to return the Christmas Bonus to employer

January 5, 2018 Social 3

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 …

Employers forced workers to return the Christmas bonus

December 28, 2017 Social 20

Several employers found a “recipe” to fill their cash registers over the Christmas days: they demanded back the Christmas bonus they are obliged by law to pay to employees. The employees’ complains landed at the unions offices one after the other. In Patras, workers at retail shops, restaurants and cleaning …

Labor bill to allow unpaid employees to claim wages & salaries from employers’ personal assets

August 30, 2017 Economy 4

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 …

Supreme Court rules “no payment of employees’ salaries is not harmful change of work contract”

July 6, 2017 Social, Society 6

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 …

Mafia-Style Labor Market: Employers extort part of employees’ salaries

March 9, 2017 Social 12

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 …

Sharing economy is creating a Dickensian world

October 21, 2016 Economy 2

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 …

Greek employees: salary delays up to 12 months & “coupons” instead of “money”

June 17, 2014 Economy, Society 2

Do you remember the serfs and servants and villeins and peasants in the good old times of feudalism and the Middle Ages? If you don’t, I have good news for you! The custom of working in return of goods instead of salary revives in Greece of modern European Union and …

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