Labor

With unpaid bills piling up at more than $1 million a day, Greece's Public Power Corporation (PPC) said it will give customers who had been paying on time but fallen behind a new installment plan with up to 40...

With Greece beginning high hopes for a better tourist season after disappointing results in 2012, more strikes have begun, this time closing ferries to the islands on April 16 with sea men protesting a bill they said could lead...

In the last four years, the labor cost per hour in Greece dropped by 11.2 percent according to data Eurostat published on April 10. According to Eurostat, Greece is the only country in the Eurozone where the cost of the...

Nearly six thousand children in Greece live on the street. Little girls and boys who sell tissues and flowers, clean car windows at traffic lights or beg passers-by to make a living. These children are mainly from other countries such...

While unemployment in Greece is rising, Greek public services are searching for workers from abroad. Three ministers, prefects, municipalities and prefectures have been mobilized in order to obtain work permits for foreigners to cover positions Greeks shun. That includes truck...

The Development, Competitiveness, Infrastructure, Transport and Networks Ministry took the decision to transfer Labor Day holiday on May 1, which this year falls during the Holy Week, to Tuesday May 7, after the Orthodox Easter.7. The day has been moved...

In Nuremberg, where there has been a strong Greek presence for many years, the Greek community has proved to be very active. The collective action of Greeks in Nuremberg started in 1964, with the establishment of the Labor Association of...

Even as Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has said he has saved Greece from bankruptcy and ruination by securing more loans from international lenders, the attached austerity measures are so devastating to society that they will raise unemployment to...

Friendship between the German city of Trier and the Greek city of Veria was once again promoted during the visit of the German Deputy Labor Minister Hans Joachim Fuchtel to Greece on June 9. He and the Mayor of...

Nikos Nikolopoulos, the deputy labor minister, resigned over the government's weak stance on renegotiating its bail-out. Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras appointed Nikos Panagiotopoulos as the new deputy labor minister. Nikolopoulos had wanted labor reforms under international rescue renegotiated in...