Greece

The headquarters of Greece's Ministry of Labour, Social Insurance and Social Solidarity in downtown Athens was the target of another ”intervention,” as the well-known Greek anarchist group ”Rubicon” terms it, on Wednesday afternoon. At approximately 1:10 PM local time, twenty...

Greece's Economy and Development Minister Dimitris Papadimitriou on Monday night resigned from his post after his wife Rania Antonopoulou left her seat as Deputy Minister for Social Solidarity only hours earlier. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras accepted both resignations. As stated...

The report of the Unified System of Control and Payment of Pensions "ILIOS" made public by the Labor Ministry shows that 1.2 million Greek pensioners live on less than 500 euros per month. The figures date from December 2016...

Greek Lawmakers who accidentally received a one-off pension bonus last December returned it to the unified national insurance body EFKA, the Labor ministry said on Tuesday. The bonus was intended for pensioners earning less than 800 a month but it...

Self-professed anarchists of the Rubicon group raided the Greek Labor Ministry on Monday shouting slogans and scattering flyers, protesting pension cuts and security contribution hikes. The perpetrators put up a banner saying "We will not live like slaves. We will...

Greek Labor Minister Efi Achtsioglou on Tuesday in a press conference presented the activities of the Labor ministry. She underlined that targeted and effective checks are being made to combat undeclared work. Achtsioglou stated that tackling unemployment is also...

The European Court of Justice's ruling on the Heracles General Cement Company (AGET Iraklis) case does not bear out gloomy predictions that measures restricting group dismissals must be abolished, while largely vindicating the government's positions, Greece's labor ministry said...

There was an explosive device found and later detonated outside of the Labor Ministry in Athens early Monday morning by the Greek police. Sources report that there has been no claim to planting the bomb and authorities became aware of...

Violent incidents took place between hotel industry employees and the riot police forces outside the Labor Ministry in central Athens on Tuesday. There was friction after protestors from the hotel employees union broke through the police lines and entered...

Greek pensioners who have seen their rights diminish since the start of the economic crisis took to the streets against the latest round of pension cuts in Athens. The elderly shouted slogans protesting against slashes to their pensions outside...

Among financial hardships austerities have brought on in Greece, there is mounting outrage by Greek people who are employed but do not get paid in both private and public sectors. Last Wednesday, cleaners employed at the Dromokaitio Psychiatric Hospital in Haidari protested outside...

This morning the entrance to a branch of the Labor Ministry in Athens city center was blocked by a group of self-styled anarchists. In protest of the latest social security reforms, they have draped a banner on the front...

Pension rights which have been secured by June 30, 2015 will not be affected by the new agreement between the government and Greece’s lenders and this is something which the institutions have accepted, Labor ministry sources said, after a...

Greece’s Labor Ministry is set to modernize the legislative framework on trade unions after 32 years, according to the Greek newspaper To Ethnos, which says radical changes are to effect union financing and strike-announcement procedures. The changes will also seek to address the disintegration of Greece’s trade unions, by...

Dozens of members of the POE-OTA union representing municipal workers stormed the Labor Ministry headquarters in central Athens on Monday morning. They demanded a meeting with Minister Effie Achtsioglou after the the death of a 53-year-old driver of a municipal...