According to current legislation, all employees who are employed in the private sector on a permanent or fixed-term, full-time or part-time basis for any employer are entitled to an Easter gift.
For the calculation of the amount of the Gifts, the method of remuneration of the employees is taken into account, i.e. if they are paid by a daily wage or by a salary.
The time period for which the Easter Gift is calculated starts from January 1st to April 30th of each year. Thus, employees whose employment relationship with the employer lasted without interruption throughout this time period (1/1-30/4), are entitled to the entire Gift, which is equal to half (1/2) of a monthly salary for wage earners and 15 day wages for day wage earners.
However, in the event that the employment relationship of an employee with his employer did not last the entire aforementioned period, he is entitled to receive a proportion of the gift, which is calculated as follows: in the case of a wage earner, an amount equal to 1/15 of half monthly salary or one day’s salary, while, for those paid by the day, for every eight calendar days of the duration of the employment relationship. If the employment relationship lasts less than eight days, he is entitled to a corresponding fraction for the Easter Gift.
Except in the case that the work was provided without interruption throughout the period from January 1 to April 30, this period also includes all the days that the employees are legally absent from their work (e.g. with annual leave, with maternity leave, with study leave). In particular, as regards the absence of employees due to illness, the “three days of sickness” are included in the calculation period of the Easter Gift, i.e. the time of absence, during which no sickness benefit is paid, while the periods paid by the insurance company sick benefit are deducted .
Example: If an employee was absent from work due to illness for 60 days and received sickness benefit from his insurance fund for 40 days, only the 40 days for which he was subsidized and not the 60.
In the event that the Easter Gift is not paid on time, the employees and/or the unions can and must appeal to the relevant Labor Inspectorate, in order to draw up a complaint.
The complaint is forwarded to the Public Prosecutor for individual prosecution once morest the employer, while, at the same time, it is also forwarded to the relevant police station for initiation of the automatic procedure.
Employees and/or their unions have the right to file a complaint directly with the relevant police department and request the application of the automatic procedure.
It should be noted that the petition should include the details of the business and the address of the employer, if possible, given that the autoforo process takes up to 48 hours.
In any case of non-payment of the Easter Gift within the set deadline, the Labor Inspectors have an obligation to intervene immediately, carrying out checks and to be fully prepared for the exercise of the self-imposed procedure and the imposition of the relevant sanctions.
Employees can make named or anonymous complaints to the single service line 1555 or to the online anonymous complaint submission service of the Labor Inspectorate or by sending a message, via e-mail, to the Inspection Department of their place of work.
The GSEE informs that the GSEE Employee and Unemployed Information Center (KEPEA-GSEE) www.kepea.gr is at the disposal of employees for submitting complaints or following up on complaints to the Labor Inspectorate regarding the non-payment of the Easter Gift.
It is possible to submit the question or complaint to the email address:
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