An amendment that provides for the reinstatement and payment of the Christmas and Easter gift to employees and pensioners, the general secretary of the KKE, Dimitris Koutsoubas, together with the party’s Parliamentary Group, submitted to the bill of the Ministry of the Interior, “Acceleration of recruitment through ASEP».

As emphasized in the explanatory statement, “For the relief of workers and pensioners, the KKE is re-submitting the amendment for the restoration of the Christmas and Easter allowance and the leave allowance, i.e. the 13th and 14th salary for employees and the 13th and 14th pension for pensioners, which were abolished with the memoranda».

In particular, the article provides that: “Reissued to all public employees and to all pensioners of all main and auxiliary insurance bodies the Christmas holiday allowance, amounting to the amount of the wages paid for employees and the monthly pension for pensioners. Also, the above workers and pensioners are re-granted the Easter holiday allowance, as well as the leave allowance, each amounting to half of the paid wages and the monthly pension».