Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis arrives to take part in a Ukraine peace summit near Lucerne, Switzerland, on June 15. Mitsotakis' administration says making six days of work mandatory is necessary due to a shrinking population and a shortage of skilled workers.Greece enacted a new employment law this week that lays out a six-day workweek — at a time when dozens of other countries are
Law 5053/2023, passed by parliament last fall, says an employee cannot work more than 8 hours on the additional day, according to the officialWorkers in Greece have been sharply critical of the change, saying the last thing they need in an era of rising cost-of-living expenses is to be on the hook to work an extra day each week.
The new system allows employers to decide unilaterally whether a worker should come in on a sixth day. It leaves intact rules that allowed the option of a six-day workweek, in which employees work 6.
The law doesn’t apply to people employed in hotel and food service industries — but the Athens Labor Unions Organization, or EKA,posted a photo of himself“Greece has the 7th highest average working time among the 38 countries of the but is also 3rd from the bottom in average wages,” the news site Greece raised its national monthly minimum wage for workers in the spring, to 830 euros . It was the fourth wage increase in five years,Greece’s economy has navigated numerous crises in recent decades. Despite recent gains, it remains well below the highs it achieved in 2007 and 2008 in terms of GDP per capita, according to. That stands in contrast to many similarly sized economies in Europe, which have either mirrored or surpassed those earlier highs.