For the first time, it will be legislated that the minimum wage, which cannot be reduced, can only be increased, he emphasized on SKAI 100.3 the Minister of Labor, Niki Kerameos referring to the new way of accounting minimum wage where will effective from 2027 onwards.

He even made it known that out of the 27 EU states, 22 have a statutory minimum wage. He noted that in total by 2027 the minimum wage will reach 950 euros, which means an increase of at least 50%.

The minister also emphasized that there is an overall increase in wages in our country, while referring to unemployment, noted that in the last six months unemployment fell by another unit and we passed after many years back to a single digit rate. He emphasized that the majority of jobs are full-time.

Referring to Disability Certification Centers he noted that the list of terminal illnesses was recently expanded so that citizens do not need to go again and again to get certified, while he said that the number of consulting doctors has more than doubled from 500 to 1,200.

About the pensions, said that 95% of outstanding pensions have been issued. As he pointed out, now 1250 main pensions are issued per day from 500 that were issued in the past, and the average time of awarding the pension is 60 days.

Finally, for the ancillary he explained that they are delayed because many are based on handwritten records and an effort is being made to digitize them. As he said characteristically if everything is digitized there will be cases where a pension can be issued within 10 minutes