Social law

Almost a third of retirees in Greece collect a monthly pension of no more than 500 euros, while the average income from main pensions in August and September 2018 came to 724.18 euros/month, according to data from the Labor Ministry's Helios database.

The same data show that auxiliary pensions averaged at 172.32 euros/month and dividends reached a mean rate of 97.84 euros/month.

A series of reforms voted through over recent months are to come into effect this year, cutting the pensions of new retirees and securing small increases for others, while 1.4 million pensioners are to see their monthly payments unchanged.

The Cartel Alfa National Trade Union Confederation announced that it has demanded for an emergency mustering of the National Tripartite Council of Social Dialogue as a minimal condition with a view to cancel the open social conflicts that might trigger following the adoption of the OUG (Government Emergency Ordinance, ed.

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila on Thursday contradicted in the joint plenary session of Parliament a series of accusations in the censure motion text, underscoring that the pension payment was not postponed, but done earlier.

Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies Liviu Dragnea declared on Wednesday, in the context of the adoption of the Pension Law, that substantial increases are envisaged by 2022, in some cases by even 250 percent.

Some 115,000 retired military officers and pensioners from special wage grids stand to receive retroactive payments for pensions cuts concerning periods of between 16.5 and 47 months, depending on each case, with their January pension on December 21.

Bulgarian pensioners are coming to a second national protest through the National Assembly, because of the indifference of the government to their problems. The protest will be held today, during the discussion of the draft budget for 2019. Before Darik, one of the organizers of the protest, Gen.

The state budget to be submitted in Parliament on Wednesday, after the government got the nod from Brussels, will be the first in three years that will not include a primary surplus overrun, as that has already been "spent" on preserving the level of "old" pensions - i.e. those issued before May 2016.

Should people who filed for retirement after mid-May 2016 receive a pension that is 25 to 40 percent lower than that collected by those who retired before that date after working the same number of years and paying the same social security contributions?

Few thousands of Croatian workers and union members gathered in Zagreb's Europe Square on Saturday to show their bitter disapproval of planned pension reforms.