2024-06-16 13:14:24
The brand new political management of the Ministry of Labor (Niki Kerameos – minister, Kostas Karagounis and Panos Tsakloglou – deputy ministers) is known as upon to handle six “scorching” points regarding tons of of 1000’s of pensioners, employees and insured individuals. Interventions might have been launched for backlogs involving each insurance coverage and pension and labor issues, however the strategy of resolving them has stalled.
It’s a query for Ms. Kerameos and her colleagues how they’ll unblock thorny points with severe political prices, resembling doable cuts to widow’s pensions and the uniform regulation of advantages.
Additionally pending is the implementation of the six-day work, unilaterally by the employer, in addition to the regulation for the awarding of pensions to insured individuals with money owed to the Funds.
These are rules that have been instituted throughout the ministry of Adonis Georgiadis and haven’t but been carried out! Let’s take a extra detailed take a look at all of the pending issues that embody the portfolio of the Ministry of Labor, which as of at present is formally within the possession of Niki Kerameos:
1. Full-time work
It is a regulation that was handed within the labor regulation below the minister Adonis Georgiadis, final fall. It issues the employer’s proper to any extent further to unilaterally impose work six days every week. The measure solely issues steady operations which have alternating shifts and features a 40% improve within the day by day wage of workers who will bear this burden. These employed in tourism and catering are exempt from the regulation.
2. Widow’s pensions
The measure of the discount of the precise pensions issues solely those that are beneficiaries and are available from the non-public sector (about 8,500), as those that come from the State have already suffered the precise discount. It is a provision of the regulation, which gives for the granting of 70% of the deceased’s pension to the surviving partner for a interval of three years. After the desired time frame, if the partner works or receives one other pension, then the profit in query is decreased by half, i.e. it falls to 35% of the unique one. Clearly, this regulation has an important political value and that’s the reason its implementation has been delayed. As well as, widow’s pensions are prone to a second minimize because of the implementation of a round, in keeping with which these receiving a couple of pension profit should select from which they’ll accumulate the nationwide pension.
3. Pensioner Solidarity Contribution
One other necessary situation that has brought about robust reactions amongst pensioners, as it’s a tax (3%-14%) imposed from 2011 for the principle pensions and from 2012 for the supplementary pensions. The measure has a damaging affect on the revenue of round 700,000 pensioners, with a number of of them not really receiving even the three% improve given firstly of the yr. The reason being the truth that with the rise they modified the extent and the EAS additionally elevated on the identical time, with the consequence that some will discover themselves with a smaller pension than they anticipated. Already within the Ministry of Labor they’ve elaborated situations to restrict the issue and dissatisfaction of pensioners.
4. Uniform regulation of advantages
These are advantages in form granted by all the previous Funds that joined EFKA. The interventions concern the upper advantages (illness, being pregnant, work accident, funeral), with a visual threat of cuts, in relation to the present quantities paid.
5. Unemployment profit
It has already been determined that the precise profit will probably be granted primarily based on the size of service and the wage obtained by every beneficiary. On the identical time, it’s anticipated that they are going to be merged – absorbed, any advantages obtained by a portion of the long-term unemployed.
6. Liabilities – pensions
It is a regulation that was handed within the Insurance coverage Invoice below Minister Adonis Georgiadis and has not but been carried out. It issues round 40,000 self-employed individuals and farmers, who meet the circumstances for a pension, however as a result of they’ve an enormous debt to the Funds they lose the appropriate to retire. Nonetheless, to ensure that the regulation to be carried out, financial institution secrecy should be lifted. Solely then will the digital platform that EFKA should activate be efficient.