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The completion of the third bailout program in 2018 will find 90% of Greeks declaring income less than 12,000 euros per year, while at the moment the number is 80%, a Kathimerini newspaper report says. At the moment, 80% of...

Rail services in Greece will be suspended from Friday July 8 until next Tuesday July 12 due to strike action by TRAINOSE workers. The strike will affect trains throughout Greece, including the Proastiakos service that runs to Athens airport....

The recent report by the OECD on Greek manpower found that Greek adults lack skills compared to the rest of the world despite the fact that lessons and teaching methods at Greek schools have been harmonized with international standards....

A European official in Brussels told Greek journalists that the Greek government should accelerate efforts to adopt the economic program it has agreed to so that unnecessary consequences of the Brexit aren't felt in the country. Greece's daily newspaper,...

The Hellenic Telecommunications Organization (OTE), Greece's telecoms provider, announced the implementation of a Voluntary Exit Scheme, primarily addressed to OTE employees near retirement as part of the company's efforts towards increasing competitiveness, rejuvenating its work force and creating new...

Employment search engine Kariera.gr published data concerning wages in Greece. The study, conducted in collaboration with the Human Resources Workshop of the Marketing and Communication Department of the Economic University of Athens from April to May 2016 found that...

Protests are planned at public hospitals around Greece on Wednesday, June 8. In Athens, medical staff will rally outside the Ministry of Health at 11 am (local time). The Panhellenic Federation of Public Hospital Employees (POEDIN) states that lives...

Cyprus is one of nine EU member states, where employment rates for non nationals are higher than those of Cypriot nationals, according to Eurostat. While the employment rate for 2015 stood at 79.3 for Cypriots, Eurostat says that it was...

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 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...