Greeks are champions within the EU in working hours, with wages within the tartar as a result of deregulation of labor relations attributable to the federal government
Eurostat gives the look of what the Greek employee and the Greek family are experiencing on account of the disastrous five-year rule of Mitsotakis. These are info that destroy the narrative of growth for all that Kyriakos Mitsotakis is making an attempt to convey. On the one hand, 2.5 million Greeks (26% of the inhabitants) reside on the poverty line. Alternatively, so as to survive, staff in Greece work the longest hours amongst European nations.
As could be seen from the statistics, Mr. Mitsotakis managed to determine in Greece the society the place 1/3 lives on the sting of poverty and the opposite 1/3 lives on the sting of survival. However a society the place 65-70% of the inhabitants suffocates underneath the boot of the price of residing disaster is a society headed for destruction. In any case, that is additionally the explanation why Greece falls within the World Happiness Report happiness index which measures the happiness of 143 societies. In 2023, it fell within the basic rating from 58th to sixty fourth, occupying, as in buying energy, the penultimate place amongst European nations, behind solely Bulgaria.
In first place
If nothing else, the statistical comparability of weekly working hours amongst European residents is unhappy. In accordance with Eurostat, Greeks are essentially the most long-time staff. The European company has ranked the Greeks because the second poorest Europeans primarily based on GDP per capita as buying energy within the 27 member states of the European Union. So in keeping with Eurostat and primarily based on weekly working hours, Greece ranks first with 39.8 hours. Romania (39.5), Poland (39.3) and Bulgaria (39) observe. Quite the opposite, the Netherlands had the least, simply 32.2 hours per week, adopted by Austria with 33.6 and Germany with 34 hours.
For a greater comparability, it is sufficient to point out that the web minimal and common wages within the Netherlands are nearly thrice greater than in our nation, whereas the identical merchandise value 13% much less.
Loopy time beyond regulation
If anybody ought to rejoice the primary time for Greek staff in weekly working hours, it’s Mr. Mitsotakis, Kostis Hatzidakis and Adonis Georgiadis. The second with the notorious elastic eight-hour work that he established (regulation 4808/19.06.2021) in observe institutionalized the tsamba time beyond regulation and induced a 20% discount in annual salaries for 1 million staff. On this approach, the buying energy of the workers was lowered and, as well as, it added fatigue and thus lowered the productiveness of labor and elevated the chance throughout working hours.
Now we all know what is going on on, after three years of working the ten-hour tire. Steady ten-hour days for six months and circumvention of labor contracts, which if mixed with the shortage of controls – in essence, Yannis Vroutsis as the primary Minister of Labor of the Mitsotakis governments abolished SEPE -, deliver 1000’s of unpaid time beyond regulation and naturally full deregulation of labor relations.
In addition they needed 16 hours…
Then got here Advert. Georgiadis. Within the logic of “if you wish to eat, work for a lot of employers, we’ll proceed to feed the inflation of greed” he tried to institutionalize the 16-hour day for various employers. When he noticed that he was working into the necessary eleven-hour relaxation, he appeared “socially delicate” and lowered the every day hours of labor for various employers to… simply 13.
Alternatively, with the identical regulation, it abolished the declaration of working hours with the operation of the digital card. One other contribution of the Mitsotakis authorities to undeclared time beyond regulation. However he did not keep there. It additionally instituted on-demand contracts: a zero-time contract, the place the worker presents his availability to work with out the period of his work being predetermined or whether or not he’ll work.
Lastly, to additional contribute to the destruction of the world of wage labor, which the Mitsotakis authorities has condemned to everlasting impoverishment, it lifted the employee’s capability to work six or seven days every week. Now work is obligatory if the employer needs it. Particularly, Regulation 5053/25.09.2023 eliminated the privilege in favor of the worker’s free will and stipulates that the employer can put the employees on a sixth day of employment.
Time adjustments value lives
The implementation of the eight-hour stretch resulted within the lack of staff’ lives. In accordance with the info of the Federation of Technical Enterprises Employees’ Associations of Greece (OSETEE), there is a rise in industrial accidents. In whole, deadly occupational accidents in 2022 had been counted at 104.
On condition that the Hatzidakis Regulation (4808/19.06.2021) was handed in June 2021 however the implementing round was issued in September 2021, the causal reference to the odd time beyond regulation hours emerges.
The entry into pressure of the Georgiadis regulation caused new enlargement. In 2023, 179 deadly occupational accidents had been counted. In fact, the comparability have to be made with 2019 as a result of measures for the pandemic in the course of the two years 2020-21. In that yr, when Mr. Mitsotakis had not intervened within the timetables, there have been 51 occupational accidents. On the identical time, the critically injured numbered 140 in 2022 and doubled to 287 a yr later.
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