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OAED: 2.09% Rise in Registered Unemployed in January

New people registered to Greece's Manpower Employment Organization (OAED) in January amounts to 17,950, according to data that was released by the organization today. Τhis means, there was a 2.09% raise since last month. More specifically, the total of registered...

Greek Student Stabs 3 Girls Who Bullied Her

A 22-year-old female student stabbed three of her fellow students who had bullied her, with a knife. "I wanted to stop them, not to kill them. It was the only way to put a stop," the woman said. "It was carrying...

Greece's Unemployed to Get Free IT Lessons

The Greek Manpower Organization (OAED) is launching a pilot program to test a scheme created in cooperation with Microsoft and aimed at training jobless people in information technology for free, aiming to expand to all registered unemployed. Regardless of age,...

Only an Eighth of Unemployed Greeks Receive Benefits

According to data released by the Greek Employment Organization (OAED), only one in eight unemployed Greeks is receiving help from the Greek state. Unemployment benefits often do not apply to most jobless Greeks as they are considered long-term unemployed, a status that...

85 in 100 Unemployed Do Not Receive Benefits

Only 150,000 unemployed people from the one million that are currently registered in the Manpower Employment Organization (OAED) are receiving their unemployment benefits, said the chairman of OAED, Theodoros Ambatzoglou. According to the OAED chairman, there will be no new benefit...

Greek Benefits Card Set for Online Renewal to Cut Queues

Greece's Minister of Labour, Giannis Vroutsis, is to present a amendment to parliament Tuesday in a bid to end the long queues outside the state labour offices to ease the plight of 1m unemployed on benefits. The revision will digitalise not only the online...

Data Shows Black Hole For Greeks With Neither Job Nor Income

Greece's state-run labor agency OAED has released data for the period 2010-2014 showing a 45% increase in unemployment registrations but 47% fewer recipients of the relevant benefit, which means that despite the dole queue getting 328,208 people longer, somehow 138,824 fewer receive unemployment benefit. Unemployment is...

Only 16 out of 100 Unemployed Receiving Unemployment Benefit

Data concerning the subsidizing of the unemployed released on Friday, March 7, by the Manpower Employment Organization (OAED) reveals the inability of the state to provide adequate protection and support for the unemployed. According to OAED, in January, only...

New Cuts in Pensions

Insurance funds will proceed to reductions in pensions and benefits, because of the adverse financial conditions caused by recession and unemployment. According to the head of the federation of employees in Greece, the average pension will suffer a reduction of...

Jobs for 50,000 Unemployed Through OAED

A new program concerning unemployed people that come from families whose members are all unemployed will be implemented in August through the Manpower Employment Organization (OAED). The program concerns 50,000 unemployed people, who will work for five months. The program...