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30% of Greece’s workers earn monthly just €385 gross, i.e. below unemployment allowance

May 30, 2018 Social 1

Thirty percent of Greece’s workers, that is more than 620,000 people, in private sector earn just 385.83 euros gross. Their net income is below the unemployment benefit.This has to do with the increasing rates in part-time jobs and the low salaries and wages in austerity and bailout agreements Greece. According …

Greece’s Working Poor: “My salary is just enough to buy food”

November 4, 2017 Social 2

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 …

Greece’s derailed labor market: Workers on 2h or 4h contracts

January 20, 2017 Economy 5

One in five Greeks works in flexible work forms and only half (42.6%) of employees work full time. More than 30,000 employees work up to four hours a week or sixteen hours per month with the equivalent low salary. In the derailed labor market in Greece of bailout agreements, capital …

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