Greece

Nearly 8 out of 10 employers in Greece now find it difficult to fill their vacancies, according to findings of the ManpowerGroup's International Talent Shortage Survey for 2019, which was published on Wednesday. Fully 77 percent of the Greek employers who...

Approximately one out of three Greek employers plan to hire more staff in the coming three months, a new survey published on Wednesday suggests. According to the findings of the survey, conducted by ''ManpowerGroup,'' a company which provides data to...

Six out of 10 employers in Greece are finding it difficult to fill their vacant job positions, ManpowerGroup said in its annual international talent shortage report for 2016 released on Thursday. For 2016, ManpowerGroup said that 59 percent of employers had...

Representatives of employer associations and employee unions reached a minimum level of agreement on Tuesday on the upcoming changes on labor laws. The two sides negotiated in the presence of Labor Minister Giorgos Katrougalos. They chose to put disagreements and...

Greece's Labor Ministry is collaborating with the Labor Inspection Squad to impose new fines for undeclared labor. The revisions to the laws are being put forth as a part of an integrated plan which is part of Greece's bailout commitments,...

The economic crisis in Greece has hit hard private sector employees with one million of them remaining unpaid for an average of five months, says an Ethnos newspaper report. The decline of labor relations has led one million employees of...

On Tuesday, the Greek government and the Federation of Hellenic Enterprises –Greece’s largest employers union -- agreed to launch a direct communication line between them in order to cooperate in resolving the problems of Greek industries and to increase...

With a record unemployment rate of 27.6 percent and 1.4 million people out of work, some Greek companies nonetheless are beginning to believe that they won't have to keep firing people during a crushing economic crisis. A survey by Manpower...

The Greek Federation of Employers, SEV, is asking for the reduction of labor costs as a negotiating point for talks with the unions and the government. On the other side, ESEE, the Confederation of Greek Merchants is asking for...

The financial crisis is indeed a source of problems, but sometimes employers cross the line just because the crisis supplies them with ample justification to do so. A very imaginative “solution” was found in Larissa where a witty employer...

Talks held on Friday between Unions, Employers and the provisional government in Athens failed. The issues brought up in negotiations were collective bargaining, the time of expansion of a collective agreement and wages. Some of the terms of the new...

Greece's private-sector umbrella union, GSEE, and the country's business groups agreed on Thursday to form a common front to oppose wage cuts, a move that could set them on a collision course with demands made by Greece's international creditors. Following...

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...

Greece announced that a total of 19,772 new Covid-19 cases had been diagnosed around the country on Friday, while 72 people suffering with the coronavirus had passed away over the past 24 hours. There had been a total of 80...

Efood, Greece's largest food delivery service, sent out a text message to 115 of their employees urging them to become freelancers, possibly accepting no benefits and less stable employment, or lose their jobs. For ten years, Efood has been the...