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Syrian refugee gives birth to baby-boy minutes after arriving by rubber boat to Greece

October 14, 2015 Very Mix 1

This must have been a horrible experience full of distress for the pregnant woman in labor, a young refugee from Syria. She survived the risky sail in the waters between Turkey and Greece on a rubber boat, while the labor had already started. A few minutes after she landed at …

20% of Greek employees await for their salaries 3-12 months

May 25, 2015 Society 9

Here we are: competitive and eager to work for investors bringing development and growth. Here we are: Greeks eager to work for no money or for the prospect of being paid some time in the future – near or far, it doesn’t matter. Main thing we have an occupation to …

The Greek “invisible” wroker and employee

July 4, 2014 Society 5

A new term appeared in our Modern Greek language of our Modern Greek crisis-hit country: the ‘invisible employee’. Who is the invisible employee who emerged from the Greek crisis and the skyrocketing unemployment? Oh, it is the employee who has a job but is not being registered in social security …

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 …

Greece’s retail workers threatened with 35%-55% wages cuts

October 31, 2013 Society Comments Off on Greece’s retail workers threatened with 35%-55% wages cuts

That’s a bad Halloween trick for the half a million Greek retail workers. As the collective bargain expired and the Troika forbids a new collective bargain, they are threatened with wages cuts reaching from -35% up to -55%. Employers will be glad to force their employees to sign individual employment …

One out of three laborers in Greek tourist sector work without insurance

July 18, 2013 Society, Uncategorized 2

Uninsured work in the Greek tourist sector tends to turn into a plague. Controls in Greek tourist resorts conducted by labor and insurance funds institutions showed that one in three workers in the tourist business work without social insurance. Control checks were conducted in the month of June in 1,345 …

Half of Greek companies fail to pay employees on time, 1:3 workers uninsured

March 11, 2013 Economy, Society 2

“What are the economy predictions for Greece?” a friend calling me abroad asked me on Monday morning. “We don’t give a hoot about predictions,” I replied. “Real life is far beyond any predictions of IMF, real life is about struggling to come along without money.” Like in cases where one …

Troika: Labour Middle Ages? You Ain’t See Nothing Yet…

January 4, 2012 Economy Comments Off on Troika: Labour Middle Ages? You Ain’t See Nothing Yet…

Those Greeks thinking the loss of labour rights and benefits and the sharp income decreases of 2011 were ‘horrible enough’ enter the New Year in a state of real terror. The IMF-EU Troika is adamant in turning Greece into the “poorest India” of the euro zone labour-wise and insist on total abolition of labour rights and …

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