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10.05.2024 / 09:25

Working pensioners double in 2.5 months

The registration of working pensioners on the special electronic platform of the Single Social Security Entity (EFKA) has exceeded all expectations, already reaching 78,000, and is increasing by the day.

09.05.2024 / 14:06

Tourism season starts with 80,000 job vacancies

This year’s tourism season has begun with about 80,000 job vacancies in hotels and restaurants, so while tourism in Greece shows excellent prospects for 2024 according to the first data from summer bookings, there are serious concerns.

05.05.2024 / 21:36

Undoing the brain drain

Authorities are eager to see young, highly qualified professionals who chose to move abroad to work in the years of the financial crisis return to Greece. And private companies say they are eager to hire them.

03.05.2024 / 22:15

New homes for 9,000+ people

More than 5,500 young individuals or young couples aged up to 39 years have already acquired their first home through the “My Home” program.

22.04.2024 / 21:16

Baby boomers are retiring

The country’s social security system is in for seven difficult years, as up until 2030 the generation of baby boomers will be rushing to retire.

20.04.2024 / 11:26

More years of work, lower pensions

Today’s teenagers, the children born during the debt crisis of the previous decade, who will enter the labor market around 2030, will be able to retire at the age of 72.5 having worked at least 38.5 years, according to the European Commission’s 2024 Aging Report – Economic and Budgetary Projections for the EU Member-States 2022-2070. 

11.04.2024 / 18:35

Contribution cut from 2025

The new reduction in social security contributions by employers, which the government plans to implement in two phases, will start in 2025.

27.03.2024 / 14:02

Professions with salary raises

The increase in the minimum wage also creates pressures for salary increases for other employees in Greece, especially in small businesses and some industries, such as services.

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