Labor Ministry in Athens

Employees at press distribution companies will hold a 24-hour strike on Friday protesting layoffs in the sector.

Workers have planned a rally outside the Labor Ministry in Athens on Thursday at 6.30 p.m.

The union representing Greek local authority workers on Monday called a nationwide work stoppage for Tuesday, from the early hours until 1.30 p.m., seeking unpaid wages.

Meanwhile, according to the Athens-Macedonia News Agency members of the union are to gather outside the Labor Ministry in Athens at 9.30 a.m. on Tuesday, demanding that contract workers get pending back pay.

State hospitals will be operating on skeleton staffs on Thursday as doctors walk off the job in protest at a new batch of planned changes to the social security system that will see their pensions reduced further and their contributions increased.

Protesters are to gather outside the Labor Ministry in Athens at 1 p.m. on Thursday to air their grievances.

Employees of Greek electronic appliances chain Elektroniki Athinon, which filed for bankruptcy last month, stand outside the Labor Ministry in Athens Thursday during a protest.

In the period from September 15 to October 31 the Labor Ministry in Athens imposed fines adding up to 60 million euros on enterprises found to be employing uninsured workers, according to data from the Artemis project released on Monday.

A total of 29,079 companies were monitored, of which one in eight (12.53 percent), or 3,645, were found to be employing undeclared workers.

Dozens of disabled citizens gathered outside the Labor Ministry in Athens on Tuesday to protest reductions to their benefits and pensions imposed as part of a broader government austerity program.

In a statement, the union representing the country's disabled also requested free medical care for all categories of disabled persons.