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Greek food delivery app suffers huge customers’ backlash over workers rights

September 17, 2021 Social, Society 2

A massive mobilization on Greek social media caused an online platform and app for food delivery to suffer a huge customers’ backlash on Friday. Reason for the strong reactions was the decision of e-food platform to change the status of dozens of its delivery workers into freelancers. In a email …

Greece registers over 67,000 new jobs in July

August 8, 2020 Economy Comments Off on Greece registers over 67,000 new jobs in July

Employment in Greece’s private sector grew in July, with the balance between new hiring and dismissals/retirements turning positive by 67,913 job positions, “Ergani” IT system data showed in a report on Friday. Wage employment flows in July recorded new hirings of 306,808 and 238,897 dismissals/retirements. In comparison with July 2019, …

Labor trend prevails: Majority of Greeks work part-time and in rotation

August 14, 2018 Economy 1

Wage-earners and hiring/dismissal balance have recorded the strongest performance since 2001, Greek Labor Ministry announced on Tuesday. Based on data from Ergani the IT private sector employment system of the Greek Labor and Social Security Ministry, the number of hiring has reached 1,598,885 for the time period 1. January – …

Athens Metro extensions create jobs, cut pollution, says the EU

July 17, 2017 environment Comments Off on Athens Metro extensions create jobs, cut pollution, says the EU

Four projects to extend and improve the Athens Metro system are stimulating the economy and improving air quality in the Greek capital. The metro system, which currently consists of three connecting lines, has, over the last two decades, helped to transform the city’s transport by reducing traffic congestion, reducing smog …

Greece moves forward: Employment on the rise

May 8, 2013 Society Comments Off on Greece moves forward: Employment on the rise

Employment was on the rise in the month of April, Greek Labor Ministry said on Wednesday. According to the data released, almost 30,000 people were hired – even though mostly temporary workers in the tourism industry. Data collected through the ministry’s Ergani database system showed 29,298 more people were hired …

Greeks To Work for €2 per Hour & Earn €2.50/h after 10 Years

November 7, 2012 Economy, Society 9

To work or not to work? To work in Greece or to migrate abroad? This dilemma is something that thousands of Greece’s youth below 25 years old will have to answer before starting their professional life in the debt-ridden country. But even for those above 25 who get a job …

Sudden Winter Outbreak in Greek Labor Market!

June 18, 2010 Economy, News, Society Comments Off on Sudden Winter Outbreak in Greek Labor Market!

I have been complaining the whole day about the heat-wave in Athens. A heat that went even higher as Greece bet Nigeria in Mundial 2010. But now, as we head towards evening, temperature drops. Not much, but enough to let me sit on a comfort chair and enjoy my plants and flowers on …

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