Minister for Employment and Social Security Andreas Loverdos (photo) has given 800,000 employers – natural persons, firms and state-run companies – two months to pay off their debts to the social security funds, states Ta Nea Daily.
If the firms do not repay their debts of EUR 12 billion by the beginning of October, they will be closed down even if they are managed by the state. Loverdos noted that the government facilitated the debtors and reduced the default fines by 80%.
“Amid a crisis and 12% jobless rate you have to be, on the one hand, tough with those who refuse to comply with the rules, and careful, on the other, not to shut down firms that can continue operating and produce good results,” the Minister said.
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