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Uganda’s foreign minister is being urged to resign following allegations in the United States that he accepted a bribe shortly after finishing his term as president of the U.N. General Assembly.

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.

More than two thirds (68 percent) of corporations in Greece reduced their salary costs from 2010 to 2013, a survey conducted for the Bank of Greece has shown.

The International Monetary Fund has urged German authorities to raise the effective retirement age above 67, saying an aging population could work longer and hence save less and spend more.

The government is negotiating a fresh reduction to some auxiliary pensions with the country's creditors in a bid to protect pensioners whose total income comes to less than 1,000 euros per month (as a sum of main and auxiliary pensions).

The Single Social Security Entity (EFKA) waited until the 11th hour to launch its online platform where employers are to declare the employees they pay through service invoice books (as long as they agree to pay contributions for them).

Labor Ministry figures released on Tuesday point to a dramatic increase in layoffs over hirings last month, making it the worst January for job openings in the last 15 years.

The EKAS allowance for low-pension retirees will be reduced by 50 percent, according to a decision by alternate Finance Minister Giorgos Houliarakis and deputy Minister for Social Security Tasos Petropoulos that was published Wednesday in the government gazette.

The move will reduce the cost of the EKAS in the 2017 budget by 421 million euros.

Roughly 37.667 salaried jobs were lost in the private sector in November 2016 according to the information system ERGANI, in what is considered the worst employment performance of the last five years, with more layoffs than hirings.

Bulgaria's education system is facing budget difficulties and a severe cadre crisis due to the retirement of teachers.

Since the beginning of 2016, 7,700 teachers have retired and this number is expected to grow to 10,000 by the end of the year. Initial expectations were for fewer than half this number of teachers to retire in 2016.