{"id":499921,"date":"2025-10-14T22:38:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/499921\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T22:38:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T22:38:15","slug":"in-eu-first-greece-set-to-introduce-13-hour-workday-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/499921\/","title":{"rendered":"In EU first, Greece set to introduce 13-hour workday \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>However, there has been no convergence with the EU on the rest of the data: Salaries remain among the lowest in the bloc, which means many Greeks are forced to work two jobs to cover the soaring cost of living, in particular high housing costs.\u00a0The country is second to last in the EU when it comes to <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Purchasing_power_parities_and_GDP_per_capita_-_preliminary_estimate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">purchasing power<\/a>, with nearly half of households unable to afford basic necessities, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/in-depth\/society-in-depth\/1264720\/greeces-response-to-cost-of-living-crisis-failing-vulnerable-populations-report-shows\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2024 report<\/a> by the European Committee of Social Rights.<\/p>\n<p>One in five Greeks works <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/web\/products-eurostat-news\/w\/ddn-20251007-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than 45 hours a week<\/a>, the highest rate in the European Union, according to Eurostat data published earlier this month. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oecd.org\/en\/data\/indicators\/hours-worked.html?oecdcontrol-d7f68dbeee-var3=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to OECD data<\/a>, Greece ranked fifth worldwide in terms of annual working hours in 2023, behind only Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica and Chile.<\/p>\n<p>New labor rules will give \u2018boost to the private sector\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Labor Minister Niki Kerameus of the New Democracy Party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxheaven.gr\/news\/71499\/n-keramews-aithma-twn-ergazomenwn-kai-twn-epixeirhsewn-h-apasxolhsh-13-wrwn-hmerhsiws-se-enan-ergodoth\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">strongly supports<\/a> the new legislation, arguing that it \u201cgives a boost to the private sector\u201d and \u201cstrengthens the employees.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe expression \u201913-hour workday\u2019 implies that we will all work 13 hours every day, all year round. Is this true? Can it happen every day? No, is the answer. It can happen up to 37 days a year, or three days a month. Secondly, it requires the employee\u2019s agreement,\u201d she told Skai TV in an interview on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Kerameus has repeatedly stressed that an employee cannot be laid off for refusing to accept the new rules, added that with unemployment levels at a \u201c17-year low [\u2026], you can understand how much this strengthens the position of the employee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But opponents of the new law, including Dimitrios Mantzos, a lawmaker with the main opposition socialist Pasok party, called out the government in parliament on Tuesday for deregulating labor relations, heightening job insecurity and disrupting work-life balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"However, there has been no convergence with the EU on the rest of the data: Salaries remain among&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":499922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[3971,487,6659,2814,2000,299,5187,1699,1450,806,8175,39253,2441,809,5111,363,48,1199,5664],"class_list":{"0":"post-499921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-agriculture","9":"tag-cost-of-living","10":"tag-crisis","11":"tag-data","12":"tag-eu","13":"tag-europe","14":"tag-european","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-greece","17":"tag-industry","18":"tag-labor","19":"tag-labor-rights","20":"tag-markets","21":"tag-negotiations","22":"tag-parliament","23":"tag-retail","24":"tag-rights","25":"tag-services","26":"tag-unemployment"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115374922404533409","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/499922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}