August 4, 2023
Economy, FEATURED
“We will establish the possibility for a worker to work for multiple employers. He can work 2 eight-hour shifts for 2 different employers and it’s perfectly legal,” Greece Labor Minister Adonis Georgiadis announced on Friday. The 16-hour work day will be provided for by a bill, which is already ready, …
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November 15, 2022
Economy
More than 55% of work can be done remotely, more than seven out of 10 companies already implement a hybrid teleworking model, and more than 60% believe that teleworking has definitely had a positive/somewhat positive impact on productivity. These are the results of a survey in more than 250 companies …
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September 11, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Restrictive measures for unvaccinated citizens in Greece go into effect on Monday, September 13, on the same day the schools open again. The restrictions will change the personal and work life of those not vaccinated against Covid-19 and will also affect their movement with public transport means for travels to …
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August 23, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Employees at the Emergency Ambulance Service (EKAV) in Thesaloniki held a protest on Monday morning against the compulsory vaccination of health workers and the measure of suspended work for the unvaccinated. The president of the workers’ union of Central Macedonia Prodromos Devletoglou stressed that a total of 170 EKAB employees …
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July 12, 2021
Greece, Politics
Greece’s highest administrative court ruled on Monday that public sector employees deserve a 15-minute break every two hours they spent in front of a computer screen. The court ruled in favor of the plaintiff in a lawsuit against the administration of a public hospital he worked at because it failed …
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July 7, 2021
Economy
The average Greek taxpayer must work 179 days in order to meet obligations to the tax office and social security funds, the annual report of the Markos Dragoumis Center for Liberal Studies (KEFiM) published on Tuesday has found. It takes Greeks just under six months to pay the 71.9 billion …
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May 31, 2021
Economy, FEATURED
It’s not a I-Owe-You, it’s not a Greek made “cryptocurrency”. It’s just unpaid work that will be awarded with “Day-Off” instead of payment. This is just a part of the controversial new labor law that will send workers unions to the streets on upcoming Thursday. Labor Minister Costis Hatzidakis claimed …
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April 9, 2021
FEATURED, Social
Forty percent of workers, working overtime, is not paid for their extra working hours, a survey by the largest private sector trade union umbrella GSEE has found. A 73% of workers demand to be paid for their overtime work instead of taking leave or day off The survey showed that …
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September 1, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Employees in the Greek private sector will have to work overtime without extra payment if they have to self-isolate due to the coronavirus. The overtime work is up to three hours per day once they return to their workplace to make up for the lost tine. This provision that labor …
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August 21, 2020
FEATURED, Social
A granny in a tavern No one can imagine a traditional tavern in the Greek countryside or on the islands without a granny helping out. I can still recall a granny outside a restaurant in Apollonia, Sifnos, preparing french fries, back then when they were freshly made from scratch. Dressed …
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April 30, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Dentists in Greece will be able to return to work on Monday, following health precautions and careful management of appointments, the Hellenic Federation of Dentists said on Thursday. Appointments must be scheduled with the minimum of an hour in-between them, a statement said and precaution measures against the coronavirus will …
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March 11, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, Economy
Government spokesman Stelios Petsas announced a government measure introduced for the time schools are closed due to coronavirus: special-purpose leave for parents. The special-purpose leave from work is for working parents with children up to 15 years old. However, not both parents can claim the leave at the same time. …
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July 2, 2018
Economy
Greeks need to work 198 days in the current year in order to be able to pay their taxes to the state and their social security contributions. According to a report by the Markos Dragoumis from the think tank Center for Liberal Studies (KEFIM), Greeks have to work for more …
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June 1, 2018
Politics, World
Arrogant, narrow-minded, superficial, full of low-level stereotypes, bias and hypocrisy… For one more time the leadership of the European Union exposed that what it seems a benevolent I-love-bella-Italia -attitude is nothing more than a deep rooted prejudice attitude of Central and North Europe towards the people of the European South. …
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May 26, 2018
Very Mix
A top academic institution in Athens is taking advantage of the miserable labor market in austerity-ridden Greece and offers jobs without salary. It is the National Technical University of Athens, the oldest and most prestigious institution in the country. It seeks to hire holders of PhD to work in the …
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January 27, 2018
Refugees
Greece’s Asylum Service has published its report for the work in 2017. The Asylum Service registered 58,661 asylum applications, of which 26,668 were submitted on the five Aegean islands where Reception and Identification Centers (“hotspots”) are located. The detailed report gives information about countries of origin, approved and rejected application …
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July 28, 2015
Economy
I have been wondering whether the new Troika which is a Quartet should be called “The Creditors’ Quartet” or “The Troika Four” or just “Greece’s creditors”. The new combo of representatives from European Commission, International Monetary Fund, European Central Bank and European Stability Mechanism definitely news a new short description, …
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June 18, 2015
Economy
The European Commission and the European Central Bank are reportedly working on a draft for a Greek debt relief, in an effort to break the impasse of bailout talks. According to an exclusive story of daily Kathimerini,the draft will be in form of a statement and thus only in case …
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January 24, 2014
Society
There must have been a massive chemtrails attack recently otherwise I have no logical explanation for this “crazy idea” – to say it politely. According to a proposal tabled by the Center of Economic Research Planning (KEPE), an official advisory body to Greek Labor Ministry, minimum wage and unemployment allowances …
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October 30, 2013
Society
“My children are abroad, my sister’s children are abroad, some other nieces too.” The lady was talking to her walking companion. “Where did they do?” the other woman asked and the first answered “Oh, one is in Paris, one in New York, one in London, one in Sweden…” I didn’t …
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