With the new for consultation of a billfollowing the Hatzidakis Law (Law 4808/2021), the government continues “with the consequence of the deregulation of labor law and undermining the collective acquis”, the PASOK-Maching of the PASOK-Maintening Center emphasize in a joint statement. Pavlos Christidis and party sector secretary Nikos Dimas.
In their statement entitled “From 8 hours to 13 hours. The ND lifts labor rights, “they say specifically that the bill,”By serving the neoliberal doctrine of cheap labor and low productivity, it introduces provisions that:
– Increase the time limits of work,
– allow individual arrangement of hours,
– change the granting of the annual license,
– limit the rest time,
– They institute 13 hours of employment to the same employer without even the employee’s consent. “
Messrs. Christidis and Dimas add that “the employee’s refusal to work overtime becomes legally precarious” and that “with the” flexibility “arrangements, the bill deconstructs collective labor law and enhances employer arbitrariness at the expense of workers”.
Note that in parallel:
“- Even overtime even in rotation.
– The surcharges of insurance contributions for overwork and overtime are abolished.
– The split of the annual license without restriction is established – the two weeks of summer holidays cease to be given. “
PASOK executives report that they are all launched while “according to Eurostat, the Greeks work more and are less paid than the rest of Europeans” and while “in 2024, Greece recorded the second lowest employment rate in the EU, while the average year was 52% when it was 52%.”
Messrs. Christidis and Dimas emphasize that “instead of the government taking measures to increase wages, it chooses to increase working hours, ignoring workers’ health and safety, labor and family balance as well as the country’s already acute demographic problem.” They note that “without decent fees, fixed hours and conditions that allow personal life and family planning, there can be no sustainable work future” and they end up ending up: “We say no to the deregulation of labor relations. We say no to work without rights. We say no to employer arbitrariness with state stamp ยป