“By the end of the year we will have publicity the roadmap on how to move on to the increase in collective agreements,” ERT Minister of Labor and Social Security told ERT. Ceramic Victory.
He specifically said, “The reality is that our country has a lot of room for improvement in coverage from collective agreements. Two things are needed to do this. It takes a robust institutional framework, which will also give the right incentives for the conclusion of collective agreements, but also to sit on the same table representatives of workers and employers. What do we do? We have begun a process and today there is a meeting at the Ministry of Labor with all national social partners to discuss optimal practices across Europe, to put down the best practices in the European Union Member States, what practices and motivations do other countries use to push for Synthesis. collective agreements. To discuss all this along with social partners in a single working group[…] And by the end of the year we will have publicity the roadmap on how we will go on to increase collective agreements, with the reinforcement I would say the framework for collective agreements. “
The minister also said they were working on a labor bill that would mainly aim for simplification and the reduction of bureaucracy for all. He added that “when I say for everyone, I mean about employees and business. Why do you need 4 documents to upload for one recruitment and not be able to get into a document to facilitate everyone? We are not yet ready to discuss it publicly. We process all these issues in great detail. Next time, there will obviously be a thorough dialogue with social partners on all these issues. ” Asked if they will collect the debts of the citizens to EFKA, he said this is forbidden and explained “EFKA has more than 49 billion unpaid debts, the government is constantly seeking fiscal space to return to society. Here one has two roads. One is to say, as previous governments we have 49 billion, we do nothing about it. We leave it to someone next. There is another way, however, and the other way is to do everything you can in order to reinforce the insurance system. To get back to society.
And when I say come back, return to retirees, return to insureds, so what do we do? We are making an international competition in order to bring legal entities to private law that will come to support EFKA in debt collection. This will be collected exclusively by EFKA, I stress it, there can be no collection. It is expressly provided in the provision of law that collection can be made exclusively by EFKA[…]So what will they do? Will come to a personalized approach. Will come and see, talk to the insured[…]».
Mrs Kerameos was referring to the 637% jump of the recorded overtime in Tourism in March due to the digital work card. “When I went to the Labor Ministry there were 150,000 card workers. Today is 10 times up. They are 1.5 million employees. Last summer we joined the whole industry and retailers into the card and since March the pilot application began to tourism and catering. And the first details came out for March. Easter holidays are not even inside and showed an increase in overtime, tourism only in March by 637%. “
Niki Kerameos also talked about reducing unemployment. “Our country had a very high unemployment. This unemployment has fallen a lot, has reached 9% […] We have a reverse problem. We have businesses that we are told we are looking to hire, but we do not find especially in the tourism and catering sectors. That is why we have put into operation this platform along with the public employment service, it is called Jobmatch. Download the platform for free from the application systems and what does this platform do? You go in and declare your preferences.
I want to work on the island from June to September. I want at least so much money and I am interested in the cook’s position so specific. You put filters.
At the same time, employers have also been uploaded and we are saying we offer these jobs with this money, with this service and so on. As I put my filters as a prospective worker, the system automatically bothers me as we say, that is, the conjunction between my own preferences, along with the jobs offered by the employer and makes a list of businesses that meet these conditions. I see the list and when I see something I am interested in I can press a video call right away and interview on the spot. With this process, we have measured it, you can have a job in 2.5 minutes.[…] I will tell you that we already had 22,000 candidates in Jobmatch from last year and more than 46,000 have been made in total[…]
This year it has many additions, that is, the video calling did not exist last year. All this because we are done to help marry the candidate who wants to find a job with specific conditions and the staff looking for staff. I would say this in combination with other initiatives, such as next Friday and Saturday 23rd and 24th of the month at the Peristeri Exhibition Center on Career Days.