Other countries apply four-day work, in Greece the six-day is officially coming: What is changing?

She is coming six days work in Greece and changes the data in the work landscape, even though in Europe the four days work.

The passed provision of the Georgiadis Law states that the 6th shift must not exceed 8 hoursthere are employees who are forbidden to be included in it, tthe daily wage will be increased (but not much), while it seems that Sunday is excluded.

In more detail, specific conditions will apply, with the company being obliged to do so manifestation of the 6th day of the week in the ERGANI II Information System, but also to demonstrate before the Labor Inspectorate the sudden and extraordinary workload for non-continuous operations.

The minister, Adonis Georgiades stated about article 25 of law 5053/23:

“Because there is a very large deficit employees, especially in industry, workers are used overtime to complete the shift, and they are paid “black”. Now they will be given the right to have an extra shift on Saturday».

Six-day work from July 1 – Which businesses are affected

The new framework of the six-day work is to be implemented from July 1 to public bodies, DEKOs, industry and branches of the private sector in continuous operationwhich apply five-day work week system.

The employers falling within the provisions of the law, are obliged to register the details of the working time limits of their employees where they will be employed on the sixth dayin the declaration of organization of working time before the employees take up duty.

Six days work – How much is paid

It is not possible to exceed 8 hours per day and overtime and overtime are prohibited.

Employees should to receive a 40% increase in their daily salary for the 6th day of employment. If the 6th day falls on a holidaythen markup is 115%.

Who are excluded from the six-day work provision?

Workers in tourism and catering are excluded. Of course, it is emphasized that in cases where companies or holdings have five-day night shifts (00:00-06:00), their employment on the 6th day during the night shift is absolutely not allowed.

Four days work, same pay: The experiment started in Germany

Same pay, fewer working days. From Thursday 1 February, 45 companies and organizations in Germany they try in practice the four-day work week for six months.

Employees receive full salaryDespite the fact that they will work fewer hours in the office or at home. The entire venture is an initiative of the management consulting firm Intraprenör in collaboration with the NGO 4 Day Week Global (4DWG), as reported by DW.

But how can the four-day work week work when more and more companies in Germany suffer from a lack of skilled labor; Wouldn’t it be better for workers to work more rather than less?

Proponents of the four-day work week believe that will help address the shortage of skilled workers because, in their opinion, will increase employee productivity. They argue that people who only work four days a week instead of five they are more motivated and therefore more productive.

Moreover, they consider that there will be more people interested in a position with four days’ work, who did not want or could not work five days. They believe that precisely in this way the lack of skilled labor will be limited.

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