Yiannis Vroutsis
Auxiliary pensions to rise by over 50 euros per month
Nearly half a million pensioners stand to enjoy an average increase of 52.2 euros per month to their auxiliary pensions, in accordance with the recent Council of State decisions.
Splitting social security contributions from income
The Labor Ministry is seriously considering the dissociation of the social security contributions calculation for 1.4 million freelance and self-employed professionals and farmers from their declared taxable income.
General collective labor agreement to be extended till year-end
Greece's Labor Ministry on Monday announced that the national general collective labor agreement will be extended until December 31 this year, through a provision added to a draft omnibus development bill which will be introduced in Parliament in the coming days.
Labor e-card to track working hours of all employees
Labor Minister Yiannis Vroutsis is expected to invite social partners and entities for a dialogue on a new measure concerning the introduction of an electronic card for workers in the next few days.
According to plans, the measure will be implemented after at least two months, at first by major enterprises and then by all corporations in Greece.
Job surplus emerges in August
Last month was the best August in five years as far as hirings in Greece were concerned, coinciding with peak tourist season.
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EFKA staff given boost to tackle backlog
The Labor Ministry has recalled 86 employees to help speed up the processing of hundreds of thousands of outstanding pension applications that are gathering dust in the basement of headquarters at the country's main social security agency.
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Busybodyism and democracy
If the last-minute amendments to the government's omnibus bill on Thursday were really that urgent, then why discuss them in Parliament at all? The provisions might as well have been included in a decree so as to avoid the 10 minutes of inconvenience (this is how long the debate lasted) that the plenary dedicated to these two substantial measures.
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Opposition parties leave parliamentary session in protest
Lawmakers of the main opposition SYRIZA, center-left Movement for Change, the Communist Party and anti-austerity MeRA25 left from an ongoing parliamentary debate on a omnibus bill in Parliament on Thursday, protesting over the submission of two last-minute provisions from Labor Minister Yiannis Vroutsis.
Debt instalment plan opens Tuesday, says minister
A much-awaited 120-tranche debt payment scheme which will allow taxpayers to repay debts to social security funds will open on Tuesday, Labor Minister Yiannis Vroutsis said on Monday.
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Ceiling seen reducing high pensions
The Labor Ministry is about to introduce a ceiling on the monthly amount of pensions, to apply retroactively, in order to plug the loophole in the Katrougalos law that allowed for some very large pensions, which in certain cases exceeded 20,000 euros a month.
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