“The government has submitted and supports this bill to antenna because it has very significant arrangements in favor of workers,” the Minister of Labor and Employment, Niki Kerameos, replied to the opposition’s request to retire the draft law “Fair Work for All: Simplification of Legislation

The minister stressed that “if the bill is withdrawn, for example, the ability of employees to work four days a week will not be established for example. The extension of the pregnancy and sergeant allowance to more women. For the first time, the parental allowance becomes tax -free and unmistakable. Protect employees from any remuneration reduction after the application of the digital card. The expansion of maternity leave to foster mothers. The ability of the employee to declare himself after he wishes to leave. “

This bill, Ms. Kerameos said, brings arrangements very important to the flexibility in the labor market, with a very large simplification of bureaucracy (abolition of forms) for easier recruitment that now requires only one document.

“These are just some indicative reasons that ‘yes’ will be insist on defending this bill because we continue and continue to give greater rights to employees,” he added.

Mrs Kerameos opposed the opposition parties who called for the bill to be withdrawn to have the courage and to go straight and tell the workers that “you do not want these positive provisions”.

Earlier, the withdrawal of the bill was requested in their interventions on the SYRIZA, KKE and New Left process.

SYRIZA rapporteur George Gavrilos, in form of statement, stressed that “it is a fact that the title of the draft law does not respond to reality experienced by workers in their lives. Therefore, there is no support for employees from this bill. It is a draft law that has taken the whole working world on the streets. That is why we are purely demanding the withdrawal of the bill, “recalling that SYRIZA President Socrates Famellos has also taken the initiative calling for all opposition forces to” withdraw the anti -labor law “.

KKE parliamentary spokesman Nikos Karathanasopoulos, for his part, called for the bill to be withdrawn, arguing that “the working class has given its answer, considers it a cause of war” and is “a bill that comes 139 years after the 8 -hour job.” This is, Mr Karathanasopoulos said, “for a bill that is really a cause of war because it creates the conditions of escalating the attack on the working class and the conversion of the economy into a war economy.” It is a bill, the KKE MP stressed “work slavery, intensity of exploitation and producing further deterioration of the working class and its own life”. He estimated that these arrangements “will multiply labor crimes”. Mr. Karathanasopoulos, politically commenting on the title of the draft law on “fair work for all”, said that this is “disgusting and challenging at the same time” and concluded that “the demand of the working class we are transferring today is a withdrawal of the bill, why do you know that it will know it.”

The special market for the New Left Theano Fotiou, was drafted with the withdrawal of the bill asking the Labor and Employment Minister to explain the reasons why the government is persistent and not withdrawing.

The debate on the principle of the bill continues with a first introductory position by the Minister of Labor and Employment N. Kerameos and the placements of the rapporteurs and specialist.