The 13th and 14th salaries in the private sector will be preserved, «Ta Nea» informs.
The national collective labor contract between the General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE) and employers, which will be signed on Thursday, envisages for the two extra salaries (given at Christmas, Easter and summer break) to be preserved, as well as a minimum increase in the salaries (1-1.5%) in 2011-2012.
After long talks, the two parties seem to have reached agreement despite the explicit ban provided in the memorandum signed between the Greek cabinet and the EU and IMF for three-year freeze of the minimum work salary in the private sector from 2010 until 2012.
PM hails signing of collective labour agreement
Prime Minister George Papandreou, commenting Thursday on the signing of the new three-year Collective Labour Agreement, said “we hail the agreement achieved between the social partners. It is an important event, particularly in this period that the country, we Greeks, are being called on to face an unprecedented crisis.”
The prime minister added that “in these difficult hours, the aim of all must be the exit from the crisis with confidence for all the Greek citizens and particularly for all those who have been harmed more by the crisis. As well as the shaping of necessary terms and preconditions for us to be led to a viable growth that will give us the possibility to build a State, a society, with social justice and dignity.”
Papandreou concluded by saying “every initiative contributing to this direction and shaping conditions of social understanding, can only give us satisfaction. Our hope is for us to achieve the building of a wider social agreement as well, that will signal the determination of all for us to defend social cohesion and create a better future for us and our children. We are working for this.”
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