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Government demands 13-hour workday/ Greek unions on alert

2025-07-02 20:05:00, Kosova & Bota CNA

Government demands 13-hour workday/ Greek unions on alert

The General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE) responded with an angry statement to the Ministry of Labor's intention to extend working hours to 13 per day for the same employer.

Workers' representatives argue that the Greek government is trying to consolidate a practice that will physically and mentally exhaust employees, without actually improving the productivity of the Greek economy.

"The further disruption of the work framework and the shifting of responsibility for the management of working and leisure time to individual negotiations, where the employer-employee relationship is unbalanced, fundamentally undermines any attempt to restore a framework of free collective bargaining," the GSEE statement said.

According to the Union, the duration of working hours, rest periods and holidays for workers cannot be regulated by government intervention, but only through social dialogue, through collective bargaining.

The proposed law, which will be subject to public consultation in the coming weeks, foresees that employees working for the same employer will be able to work up to 13 hours a day. Until now, this measure only applied to those working for two different employers. /CNA





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