“In 2021 we are going for an all-time record in the issuance of pensions” notes the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Kostis Hatzidakis, in his interview with the newspaper Realnews.
Analyzing the initiatives taken to accelerate the issuance of outstanding pensions, the Minister of Labor states that, with the further increase of the award rates, “we aspire, within the first half of 2022, to finish the issue of outstanding main pensions”.
In his interview with Realnews, Mr. Hatzidakis also refers to the new unified number of citizens’ services of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, pointing out that the unified dialing number 1555 is in fact social policy, because it serves employees, retirees, insured.
Asked, among other things, about the minimum wage, the Minister of Labor recalled that a small increase in the minimum wage by 2% has already been decided and, to its benefits with a new increase in the minimum wage “. “We do not give the monopoly of social sensitivity to anyone!” underlines Mr. Hatzidakis.
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