Greece

The redesigned lighting for all the major Athenian monuments is now complete, with the new lighting for the temple of Hephaestus and the monument to Philopappos shown for the first time on Tuesday evening in the Greek capital. The lighting...

The Greek unemployment rate fell to 17.6 per cent of the workforce in April 2019 from 18.2 per cent in March and 19.8 pct in April last year, the Greek Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) said in a report on Thursday. This...

According to the ERGANI database of the Greek Labor Ministry, the wages the Greek State paid to its staff rose by the impressive figure of 16.7 percent from 2014 to 2017. The information was released following a request from...

The period between January and September of 2018 held some good and some bad news for Greece's economy and more specifically the issue of unemployment and new jobs. According to the official database ''Ergani'' of the Greek Labor Ministry, during...

For the second consecutive July, Greece saw more job losses than hires. According to the Labor Ministry’s Ergani database, there were 239,080 new hires throughout the country in July, while job losses totaled 247,690. July was the second top month in...

    More Greeks are in work but over half are struggling to get by on flexible or part-time contracts, data reported in Greek media has suggested. Although many are pleased to be in work, employers are struggling to hire or retain...

One half of new jobs in Greece's private sector are part-time and pay below minimum wage, according to figures released by ERGANI. May figures look promising regarding the number of hirings, but the wages are low and half of the...

The Greek government previously announced that it was going to create an application where taxpayers could keep track of their financial transactions in order to know when they reach the set amount needed to cover a tax-free threshold. However,...

The latest data released by the Greek Labor Ministry's IT system, Ergani, shows that the job loss rate in January 2017 has hit a 16-year record low. The numbers show that some 29,817 jobs were lost in the month of...

New jobs are offering increasingly low salaries in Greece according to data from the Labor Ministry’s Ergani database. According to the data presented in the report which analyzes the salaries of Greeks, in 2015 one in two workers in Greece were paid...

Over 37,600 salaried employees in the private sector lost their jobs in November, according to Greece's labor ministry figures released on Monday. According to the labor ministry's Ergani computer system, an upward turn in employment shown in the summer months...

Flexible, cheap work agreements are becoming the norm in Greece with young people under 29 years most affected. Data by Ergani Center for the Support of Employment and Entrepreneurship in Women found that one in two recruitments from a...

As unemployment soars in Greece, new employment contracts for Greeks desperately seeking work are emerging. The Ergani database system of the Greek Labor Ministry records the flow of employment across Greece in terms of region, sector, company size and contract type, among...

Wage employment in the private sector grew in March as the hiring/dismissal balance showed a surplus of 29,351 job positions, official data showed on Monday. A monthly report by “Ergani,” the IT system of the Greek Labor ministry, said that...

The negative performance of the Greek job market continued this past month, as there were 441 more job losses than job openings in Greece during the month of August, according to ERGANI, an online private sector job registry that is...