Labor Ministry

The All-Workers Militant Front (PAME), the Communist Party of Greece (KKE)-affiliated trade union, is protesting outside the Labor Ministry against the increase to pensioners’ health contributions by 4-6%. A PAME delegation is meeting with Labor Minister George Katrougalos to discuss EU-imposed changes to labor law.

As the collective bargaining process for public servants? wages began in Ankara on Aug. 3, police intervened in a group of union members, who wanted to march to the Labor Ministry to make their demands heard on the first day of the negotiations.

Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras managed to pass through a third austerity memorandum himself, one that he doesn’t believe in. In the process, he lost his coalition government’s majority with a quarter of SYRIZA MPs dissenting and the rest appearing to vote under duress.

By Roula Salourou

A series of measures that could burden the state budget by more than 300 million euros per year are included in a bill that the Labor Ministry tabled on Monday in Parliament.

 ETEA about to tap AKAGE for 50 mln euros to pay its retirees

By Roula Salourou

The government is set to draw cash from a special fund set up for future generations to make up the amount it needs to pay supplementary pensions this month. The Labor Ministry, meanwhile, has been upping pressure on social security funds to hand over their cash reserves.

The government is planning to issue a special card to 150,000 citizens through National Bank of Greece which they will be able to use to purchase food as part of a new program to help the poor designed by the Labor Ministry.

Almost 121,000 Greeks applied for meal vouchers, free electricity and rent subsidies in the first two weeks of a new program introduced by the government to tackle what it calls the ?humanitarian crisis? in Greece.

According to the Labor Ministry, a total of 120,726 people have submitted applications since the scheme was launched.

Another salmonella case after 5 die in nursing home

CACAK -- Another person with salmonella poisoning is being treated at the hospital in Cacak, central Serbia, Director Dr. Radoslav Milosevic said on Wednesday.

The earlier-than-usual start to the tourism season ? thanks to Orthodox Easter falling in the first half of April ? helped the labor market to post a slight recovery last month, with the Labor Ministry?s Ergani hiring register showed a net rise of 22,313 jobs in March.

The crucial Eurogroup meeting for Greece scheduled for April 24 is to take place in ten days. There are warnings from abroad that time is running out for a solution that would avert a "Grexident" resulting in Greece's exit from the eurozone. Negotiations are continuing now that Greek Orthodox Easter (April 12) has ended but the situation looks glum.