November 4, 2017
Social
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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October 13, 2017
Social
Employees in Greece’s public sector earn much more than their colleagues in the private sector. According to a report by Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) private sectors workers earn an average of 38% less than in the public sector The SEV figures reveal that private sector workers still carry the …
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August 30, 2017
Economy
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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May 11, 2017
Greece
The State Auditors Court dropped a bombshell: it ruled that municipality workers with extended work contracts will have to return the salaries they received in the time their contracts were extended. The Court considers the extension of contracts even to one year as against the constitution. The decision will affect …
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March 14, 2017
Social, Society
Workers are still not feeling economic recovery: wages are lower now than they were eight years ago in seven EU member states, according to new research published today by the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) and European Trade Union Confederation (ETUC). The research also shows that in 18 EU countries …
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March 14, 2017
Social, Society
Real unemployment in Greece is at 30% and the salary gap between the private and the public sector is growing. These are some of the findings of the annual report 2016 conducted bu the Labor Institute of the Confederation of Greek Private Sector Unions (INE-GSEE) about the state of laborers …
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January 20, 2017
Economy
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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November 4, 2016
Politics
Sixteen former European commissioners are currently receiving monthly payments from the commission’s coffers, even though several of them have already found new, well-paid jobs. The list of who receives the so-called transitional allowance of at least €99,996 per year was acquired by German weekly newspaper Die Zeit. A letter to …
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October 31, 2016
Politics
The first dismissals of teachers and university professors is a fact: five members of educational personnel have been kicked out of the public school system for an obvious reason: for not fulfilling the duties they were hired for. The five people were found to be absent from the education institutions …
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October 14, 2015
Society
Everyone who lives in Greece knows that there are no jobs. And that if there are any, they are badly paid. Not so much because of the low salaries but because full-time jobs have become a rarity. Part-time jobs prevail and rule the Greek labor market. Almost half a million …
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August 11, 2015
Politics
Finally, good news! In the direction of correcting what we call “social injustice”. That is that while the poor and the needy and the vulnerable society groups are being disproportionally overtaxed, lawmakers and politicians pay less taxes and enjoy tax breaks with ‘whatever’ justification the legislator who introduced this system …
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May 25, 2015
Society
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 …
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January 20, 2015
Politics
Do you remember KTG’s blogpost, that 300 MPs received in advance their January salary although the Parliament was closed on December 31st due to the elections on January 25th? Well… after the move was described by several media as “provocations in times of economic crisis” now the Parliament decided to …
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January 15, 2015
Politics
Three hundred members of the Greek Parliament received their January salary despite the fact that the Parliament was formally closed on December 31st due to proclaimed elections on January 25th. Three hundred MPs saw their parliamentary allowance of 5,500 euro net (€7,000 gross) being credited in their bank accounts, despite …
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October 23, 2014
Politics
Ex minister for Health and Nea Dimokratia MP Adonis Georgiadis complained about the cuts in MP’s pay and perks. “Greek MPs have suffered the biggest cuts in their salary and allowances than any other branch in the government,” he claimed adding “the salary cuts reached 60% and the parliamentary pensions …
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September 15, 2014
Society
One in three workers in Greece’s private sector earn a monthly salary of €300 net -up to €440 gross. This shocking revelations comes from a survey conducted by the Labor Institute (INE) of private sector union GSEE. The survey reveals that wages in greece have shrunk significantly through the so-called …
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June 17, 2014
Economy, Society
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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April 11, 2014
Economy, Society
How much money does one need to cover monthly basic needs while living in Greece? Well, it depends…. In fact, it depends on who decides. The Troika, the government institutions, the banks, the employers or just the person concerned? The views seem to vary between the theoretical approach and the …
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December 12, 2013
Society
More than 18,000 candidates sent their CVs to OTE after Greece’s biggest Telecommunication Company announced 390 job vacancies for salespersons. What if the salary is the minimum wage of just 580 euro gross per month. i.e. some 480 euro net. With more than 1,3 million people without job, unemployment rate …
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November 14, 2013
Politics
Greek lawmakers are about to vote to keep their salaries and expenses at the existing levels. A draft bill will be voted in the Parliament next Monday. I write “it will be voted” because nobody would dare believe that any MP whether from the coalition government nor form the opposition …
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