The Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Security, Panos Tsakloglou in an interview with the “SKAI” television station, he emphasized that there is no six-day work in Greece, referring to “fake news”.
He pointed out that according to the available data, in the first fortnight of July applications for emergency work shift approved by the Ministry of Labor corresponded to less than 0.1% of all businesses in our country – in fact it was only 0.076%.
Speaking about the revision of the list of irreversible diseases, Mr. Tsakloglou underlined that the government’s goal is to simplify the procedures and reduce the suffering of the disabled citizen during his certification by the National Health Insurance Institutions.
With regard to the strengthening of KEPAs, the deputy minister noted that this is done on three levels at the moment. The first level concerns the increase in the number of doctors who carry out the examinations or medical visits for KEPAs. The second in the 50% increase in reimbursements per visit or per examination to attract new doctors and to staff the KEPA with all appropriate specialties. The third level concerns the improvement of accessibility to the structures of KEPA for people with disabilities.
For the maternity allowance Mr. Tsakloglou pointed out that the goal of the Ministry of Labor remains the reconciliation of family and professional life, in order to reduce the insecurity of the working mother who wants to create a family without, however, jeopardizing her job or her standard of living.
Finally, for the employment of pensioners the deputy minister noted that although the unemployment rates have decreased significantly in the previous five years, we see that there are major bottlenecks in the labor market.
“Our goal is to encourage the participation in the labor market of groups whose participation rate in the labor force is much lower in Greece than in Europe such as young people, women, people with disabilities and the elderly,” he said.
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