On July 1, the opportunity of implementing a six-day work week with a 40% elevated each day wage begins – together with the implementation of the digital labor card in trade – and is among the measures that might be examined by the brand new Minister of Labor Niki Kerameos.
This can be a provision that was handed final autumn by the then Minister of Labor Adonis Georgiadis, which has gathered quite a lot of damaging criticism and reactions.
It considerations the suitable that the employer will henceforth have, to unilaterally impose a six-day work week. The six-day work regime – in keeping with legislation 5053/23 – considerations repeatedly working companies that apply a five-day weekly work system. It is not going to concern DEKO, public sector and banks, whereas tourism and catering are excluded from the regulation.
Employees might be paid further for the sixth day with 40% of the each day wage and 115% if it’s a vacation, whereas they are going to be entitled to an extra day without work inside the coming week.
The legislation with this regulation makes an attempt to serve the businesses that function with a 24 hours a day and 7 days every week rotating shift schedule, and which don’t discover new certified employees and consequently are unable to correctly arrange the shifts.
The measure was to begin in March, however the difficulties that arose within the implementation of the ERGANI II data system, made it inconceivable to implement this provision.
Based on the legislation, the employment of workers throughout the extra day might not exceed eight hours, whereas extra time and extra time work by the worker is just not allowed.
The above employers are obliged to register the main points of the working deadlines of their workers who might be employed on the sixth day within the declaration of group of working time earlier than the staff take up their duties.
Phrases and circumstances
The six-day work – topic to circumstances – may also be utilized by employers of companies or holdings that aren’t by their nature of steady operation, however it’s potential to function throughout the days Monday to Saturday, for twenty-four hours with a system of alternating shifts and by which the employees are employed in a five-day work week. And this in order that they face an unpredictably significantly elevated workload.
For the applying of the six-day interval, the next circumstances should be met:
- To have declared initially and responsibly to PS ERGANI II that they belong to the particular class of companies. To declare, each time they want to make use of the sixth day, prematurely and in any case earlier than the staff take up their duties, to PS ERGANI II that the enterprise or holding presents a very elevated workload throughout a selected interval. The particular situation of unpredictably elevated workload is topic to regulate by the competent division of the Labor Inspectorate.
- The employment of workers, throughout the extra day, might not exceed eight hours. Throughout at the present time, extra time and extra time work by the worker is just not allowed.
Within the occasion that the employment coincides with a Sunday or vacation, the worker will obtain an extra 40% and a 75% surcharge, i.e. a complete extra 115%. Employment on the sixth day inside the identical week doesn’t grant a weekly relaxation day (day without work), until it coincides with an exempt day.
In instances the place firms or holdings have five-day night time shifts (00.00-06.00), for no motive is it allowed to make use of them on the sixth day throughout the night time shift.
Supply: OT
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