Significant decline in insurance contributions imposed on overtime, overtime, nightclubs and holidays were announced by the Minister of Labor and Social Security Ceramic Victory In an interview he gave to Mega on Thursday, February 20th.

As Ms. Kerameos explained, the employee will continue to receive the surcharge eg. Holidays where it works by 75%, as it is, pointing out that nothing changes in the issue of remuneration.

“What is changing? The money that the employee and the business gives the state for work, ”he noted.

“Let me say it with an example. Let’s say I work 8 hours 08: 00-16: 00 and pay for 6 euros per hour. If I work Sunday my remuneration will be over 10 euros per hour. But the contributions I will pay for the job on Sunday will no longer be estimated at 10 euros, I mean a contribution of 10 euros, but a contribution to 6 euros. “

As the Minister said, this initiative is part of a series of actions that the Ministry of Labor has progressed to systematically relieve non -wage costs, which has already declined horizontally by 5.5 percentage points.

“It is a significant decline that comes, again, to expand the disposable income of employees and businesses. To stay more money, that is, the employee and the business, “he said.

Indeed, the fact that the revenue of insurance funds from overtime, overtime, nightclubs and holidays are only 1.5%, an example that the level of compliance remains low, Ms. Official labor overall and complete transparency in terms of work. “

He added that the regulation is horizontal and concerns all sectors of the economy, clarifying that it concerns only full -time workers “because our goal is to have more part -time conversions in full -time. We want full employment and we have very positive signs. “

Referring to the findings of the ERGANI information system that reflects the situation in the labor market, he said that “we systematically have an increase in full -time contracts”.

For the new Employment Program of DYPA In municipalities, regions, legal entities public law and decentralized administrations for employees aged 55 and over, he said: “We all know that it is more difficult to find a job out of 55 and above. So the state is coming to support this effort, to support our fellow citizens who have been a few pensions, precisely to establish the right to retirement. ” As Ms Kerameos pointed out, “yesterday the ministerial decision was published, which provides for all the parameters of the program and we are in the final line in a few weeks will open the program for applications for 6,000 new jobs”, stating that these are subsidized employment positions. the state.

“They are one of the most absorption programs our country has ever had in the field of employment and 27,000 of our fellow citizens have already benefited from it. So let’s go and give 6,000 new jobs for people 55 and over. “

As the minister announced, applications will begin in March.

Regarding the application of the digital work card to focus and tourism, which is fully implemented on March 1, he recalled that “from September onwards we started piloting in tourism and catering, six months pilot. We have had many discussions with the representatives of these two branches. Many of their reasonable demands have already been incorporated into a circular that came out. ” He even added that where the work card has been applied, there is a very significant increase in overtime declared.

“815,000 more overtime have been declared after the use of the digital work card,” he said, cited as an example of the catering industry where the phenomenon has been observed, two in three workers being declared part -time.

“Do we care? Two things care about. The first is to pay the employee for the real time he works for, this is very important. And the second is to shield healthy competition. Because if a business does everything as it should, it pays, it pays contributions, fully complies with the framework and another business 100, 200 meters below does not pay contributions, does not do it all properly, it distorts competition. “

Asked about the case of Vasilis Kalogirou’s death in Larissa, he said: “At this time a family is mourning a very young person and demanding answers, he demands answers to that death. Respect for this family, mother, father, respect for the investigative process and justice requires to be very careful in publicly. For this very reason unthinkable hints, completely escaping scenarios, going to the limits of unreal, such positions poison society and institutions. And I will add something else, I think that the worst face of populism is the exploitation of human pain. We all have a universal demand for justice. But justice is awarded by justice. It is not awarded either by the People’s Courts or by the parties, it is awarded by justice itself. And we must all show respect for these processes. “