Labor history

In connection with the Easter holiday weekends, Blue and Green Zoned Pay Parking Areas will not be open from Friday - April 26th to Monday - April 29th (inclusive). This was announced by the Center for Urban Mobility EAD.

The Federation of Bank Employee Unions (OTOE) on Wednesday announced the completion of the new collective labor contract, which among other things provides for reduced opening hours for bank branches.
Therefore, as of May 2, branches will be open from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. from Monday to Friday.

For the tenth consecutive year, Bulgaria is the last in the European Union in pay of overtime work. In 2018 an average of 5.5 euros was paid for an extra hour of work, according to data from the European Statistics Agency Eurostat.

Shoppers stop to listen to one of several bands and one-man shows that entertained and amused the public on downtown Athens's Ermou Street off Syntagma Square on Saturday. Shops in many parts of Greece will stay open through the weekend - as they had done before Christmas - in response to the spike in business due to the holidays.

Around Easter at the end of April and Christmas in December - this will be the two periods next year, when we will have more days off.
 

How about working not five days, but four days a week? Perhaps at the moment this seems to be impossible, but many employers are now considering shortening the number of working days in order to attract more employees and stimulate the productivity of their staff.

On 21 June 2018, the Council agreed its negotiating position (general approach) on the directive on work-life balance for parents and carers. On the basis of this mandate, the Council Presidency will start negotiations with the European Parliament once the latter has adopted its position.

29% of EU citizens between the ages of 20 and 34 usually work on weekends, according to Eurostat. Our country is below the average for the community - just under 20% are engaged at the time most people rest.

Precarity is a still river that runs deep. Every now and then a public discussion is started about it. Some ten people gather in front of the ministry demanding better working conditions for individual groups of workers who are in especially difficult situations. And that's about it.

Contract workers employed at municipalities across Attica brave the wet weather to stage a demonstration outside the Interior Ministry in Athens, on Thursday. Their labor union, OTA, declared a work stoppage Thursday demanding the permanent hiring of contract workers by local authorities and the immediate recruitment of more staff to plug gaps in services.