In addition, the pensioners will receive a national pension with the 400 euros boost announced by the Prime Minister, which will be given on a permanent basis every November, starting in November 2026. The beneficiaries are expanded to 2.2 million from 1.87 as the income and assets criteria applicable in previous years are abolished [...]
More disposable income for employees, families and pensioners is the key axis of the new financial package at the final stage of processing in view of ITH. The design is not limited to one intervention, but includes a grid of measures starting from the minimum wage and insurance contributions and reaching the tax support of families [...]
The government celebrates that the minimum wage was nominally increased by 41% as of 2019, a figure repeated in each announcement. But what is not said with the same intensity is that the nominal increase was limited mainly to the basis of the wage pyramid. The increase in the actual minimum wage, in terms of purchasing power, was minimal if [...]
Almost four years after the adoption of the European Directive on Adequate Minimum Salaries, the Commission adopted the first assessment report on Member States, which also contains data on Collective Labour Conventions (CLOs). Greece incorporated the Directive with Law 5163/2024, binding on the European objective to cover at least 80% of [...]
