unemployment

Speaking to Spanish radio station "Ondra Cero," Athens mayor Giorgos Kaminis said that the city is on the path to economic recovery and that unemployment figures are deceptive because employment has been replaced by unregistered employment. The Greek mayor said...

Faced with an “anaemic” pace of job creation and nearly 1.3 million unemployed citizens, Greece risks a prolonged social crisis unless urgent measures are taken, warns a new report out today from the International Labour Organization (ILO). According to the...

Greece tops the “black list” of European unemployment once again, according to seasonally adjusted figures released on October 31 by EU statistics office, Eurostat. Unemployment rates across the 28 member states was 10.1% in September 2014, while the highest rates...

Today, Greece’s major labor unions have announced a 24-hour general strike for November 27 in order to protest against planned layoffs and pension reforms demanded by the country's international lenders. This will be the first general strike in the country...

A decline in birth rates and an aging population have emerged as further side effects of Greece's ongoing economic crisis. For the past six years, Greece has also suffered a significant increase in abortions. According to the daily newspaper "Efimerida ton...

The Guardian, England's leading newspaper, has recently featured a story by contributor Jon Henley, who walked the streets of Athens and described what he experienced, finding that the homelessness issue in Athens remains more visible now than ever before. Henley met some of...

Greece is showing a steady decline in its unemployment rate per quarter, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said during a summit in Milan yesterday on the issue of growth and jobs in the European Union. Referring to Greece's improving economy,...

This morning, a symbolic sit-in at the office of Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris was staged by the city's municipal employees. The sit-in was scheduled as part of the "work freeze" ordered by the municipal employees' POE-OTA union. The municipal employees were protesting...

The draft budget currently tabled in parliament does not include a reduction in tax rates. It does, however, include a 1 billion euro increase in revenues. It also foresees a reduction in unemployment rates and sets the primary surplus...

The story of a young Greek mother who was for six months living on the streets with her baby and her father, has shocked the Cretan community. After losing their jobs, the 21-year-old mother, her eight-month-old baby, along with the...