The aim of the Greek side is to reverse the deregulation of the five-year Memorandum policy, Labor Minister Giorgos Katrougalos said on Monday after a meeting with representatives of the European Central Bank (ECB), the European Commission, the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
“The heads of the institutions visited the Labor Ministry following my invitation to discuss the negotiations ‘roadmap’ on the labor and social security issues,” Katrougalos stated. “The discussion was conducted in a constructive climate. The aim of the Greek side on labor issues is to identify and legislate the best practices that define the European Social Model and reverse the deregulation of the five-year Memorandum policy. As for the pension system, we aim at reforms that will ensure the viability of a socially just and rational social security system,” he underlined.
As Katrougalos said “the new negotiation on labor issues will involve international organizations such as the International Labour Organisation and the Committee on Social Rights of the Social Charter of the Council of Europe and will seek to have the widest possible publicity. And this not just to ensure transparency, which was missing all the previous period, but also to enable the society’s active participation in the dialogue.”
(Source: ANA-MPA)
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