Increase in declared overtime by 1.8 million hours compared to last year it already records the information system “ERGANI”as revealed in an interview given to Real FM radio station Minister of Labor and Social Security, Ceramic Victory.
As the Minister noted, “the number is difficult. The digital work card is a tool that comes and protects the employee first and foremost, records how much time he really works and ensures that he is paid for this time, while also protecting healthy competition.
Its scope has been greatly expanded by adding to this protective measure of tourism, catering, industry, retailing. “
He even announced that the wholesale, energy and financial services sectors would soon be in compulsory implementation of the Digital Work Card.
“In tourism we have an increase of 681% and focusing on the plus 180%. That is, we have great increases and that means more revenue for the worker and the state, “he added.
Concerning the labor bill to be submitted to Parliament, Mrs Kerameos rejected the objections of the General Confederation of Workers of Greece (GSEE) “On the allegedly deregulated framework for individual and collective labor law, pointing out that this deregulated framework is the” lowest framework of the 18th. Today, our country has been the lowest unemployment since 2008. He has been the highest employment for 18 years. It has much lower insurance contributions. So, the most basic, over 500,000 fellow citizens have found a job. Quantitatives are clear. We have over 500,000 citizens who did not work five years ago and are now working. Don’t underestimate this. The fact that a man finds a job means that he acquires a much greater opportunity to live better himself and his family, to stand on his feet, to create. Work is life. Therefore, that we have 500,000 fellow citizens, who were not working and now working, is a very important step. But it is not enough and is not enough, because this 500,000 element is purely quantitative. “
Analyzing the qualitative characteristics of jobs, the Labor Minister stressed that there is a large increase in full -time employment, as more than three in four Greeks are working in full -time.
Asked about the “so -called 13 -hour, attempted to be embedded in public dialogue as a horizontal arrangement that concerns all workers” as he described it, Mrs Kerameos replied: “It is not so, because it is an exceptional arrangement, it cannot be applied more than 37 days a year, You work in two employers or in three. What is changing is that, instead of taking your motorcycle and going to a second employer and getting paid normally and not as overtime, because overtime is paid +40%, you will be able, if you wish, exceptionally, for 37 days a year to work for up to 13 hours. “
Responding to cases where there are any abuse of arrangement, the minister recalled that the same debate was held last year on emergency work shift, where it was attempted to consciously consciousness that the entire labor market is entering a 6 -day job, and only 0.1%.
“Why do I say that? Because then the discussion was identical. But how can the employee refuse to work for the sixth day? We said then it will be exceptionally, it has very specific conditions, it is very expensive for the employer to do so, what we are saying today for the exceptional 13 -hour employment, “Mrs Kerameos said, adding that it is much more in the business to hire a second employee. “Have you heard any complaints – that someone denied the ‘sixth’ day and something happened? I haven’t heard. 0.1% are businesses that entered the alleged six -day job. I say, because it was an extraordinary shift for factories, for specific conditions. “
Referring to the opposition’s reactions, he commented that they have focused on public debate on a single provision, which all he can do is allow one employee to be paid 40% for something he already does, ignoring 87 provisions in total, many of whom are very important to them.
“Opposition parties next week, which will start the bill in the House, will ask them directly. Are they arguing, say, with the provision provided by the four -day four -day bill? I haven’t heard anything about it. I hope they are, because they agree and they will vote for it. They disagree with the fact that the bill stipulates that most women will be able to get a pregnancy and pregnancy allowance? Do they disagree with the fact that we make the parental leave allowance tax free, unexplained and irrelevant? Do they disagree that we very much tighten the framework for health and safety at work?
Today, at a construction site, someone who is doing oxygen and dyed. They do it at the same time and there is no one to coordinate them. This can lead to an accident at work. What do we predict? Mandatory presence of health and safety coordinator. So I ask, and even the opposition, will they vote against the provision of a compulsory presence of health and safety coordinator? Will they vote against expansion of maternity leave to foster mothers? Will they vote against the prohibition of reducing remuneration in a industry that has implemented a digital work card? Why do I say that? These seven arrangements are indicative and very supportive to employees. We hear nothing about them. I hope we don’t hear, because they will vote positively, “she added.
At the same time, the Minister of Labor referred to the new subsidized employment program for 10,000 mothers with children up to 15 years, stressing that, although female unemployment, the ministry continues to support women, subsidizing their employment, which will be subsidized by one of them.
Mrs Kerameos then clarified that the regulation of the bill that provides for four -day labor and which is not discussed much in public dialogue not only concerns working parents, but all workers, adding that it has no restriction, “one may want to reconcile a better personal and professional life. Now, there will be the box for four -day work all year. “
Finally, regarding the upcoming action of the Ministry “Rebrain Greece” in New York on December 7, 2025, the minister said: “The situation is such that there is a great deal of interest. We don’t go alone. We go with very large businesses in our country, who are looking for specialized staff. As a Ministry of Labor, we consider it our duty to bring the two parties closer, that is, to bring Greek citizens who are abroad and want to get to know businesses that are active in Greece and businesses looking for specialized staff. “