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“The challenge today is to integrate more people into the labor market. Either they are women, or they are our fellow citizens of a younger age”, said the Minister of Labor and Social Security, Domna Michailidou, speaking at the Fortune Greece event, “Most Powerful Women Summit 2024”.
The Minister of Labor and Social Security emphasized: “we have a lot to gain from the inclusion of women and our younger fellow citizens in the labor market. As we gain from our older fellow citizens.” As an example, he brought the working pensioners whose number from 26,000 in the previous year within a month since the 30% withholding in their pension was abolished has reached 72,000.
Domna Michailidou made a special mention of the training programs. As he said: “150,000 of our fellow citizens have already been trained in green and highly specialized skills and we are continuing. But what is needed is that the training takes place also within the workplace and above all within industry. With the people of the business, with the equipment of the business, so that it is much more attractive for the employer to take an employee with certain skills.”
“There are no big changes, no magic wand. What we are implementing is a sum of marginal changes, reforms which we are prioritizing”, noted the Minister of Labor and Social Security. One of these changes, said Domna Michailidou, “is that self-employed people now receive maternity benefits”.
In fact, this measure, combined with the birth allowance and the active employment programs, which focus on women, have led the wage gap in Greece to be lower than in other European countries, said the Minister of Labor and Social Security, which, however, did not fail to mention that the participation of women in the labor market is lower.
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