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Greek Enterprise Federation (SEV) Drops the 'Bomb' on Workers Rights

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The Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) dropped the bomb by demanding the liberalization of group dismissals, a drastic restriction of strike action and more strength for corporate contracts over agreements concerning workers sectors.
The legislation SEV is calling for, was published in its weekly bulletin on the Greek economy, where it is stated that these reforms on their own would not solve employment or growth problems for the country but they are an important ingredient for the business environment that is fraught with hidden traps for investors.
Minimum wages are now set by the state via complex deliberations, a system that has replaced the National General Group Contracts for Employment. A reduction to wages has been fundamental to ensuring that thousands of businesses stay afloat. The administrative setting of the minimum wage will be implemented for as long as unemployment levels are over 10 percent, meaning that this system will be kept for many years to come. Greece’s social partners want the old system of setting the minimum wage via group contracts to return.
The current protection given to workers from group dismissals only protects workers in the short-term. A company will only be exploring mass dismissals if there are serious problems, and in cases where these were prevented, not one of the companies prevented from making group dismissals managed to survive resulting in the disappearance of jobs and remainder of activity that may have helped the company to recover. Even healthy businesses are put in the position of being reluctant to hire staff members at a time of uncertainty as a result of the fact that they don’t have access to group dismissals.
The heads of enterprise want strike action to be limited. The strikers cannot hold the economy hostage.
The businessmen also want to re-examine privileges afforded to unionists (leave, wages, protection from dismissals) and the process in which strike action is called. There are many other technical matters that SEV wants changed.
 

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