Economic

12/08/2026

Greek private workers earn extra pay on August 15 holiday

If you work in the Greek private sector, 15 August 2026 is not a normal Saturday. It is a mandatory public holiday that lands on a weekend, and the amount your employer owes you depends on three questions most workers never think to ask: is the ...

12/08/2026

5 min

Greek minimum wage rises stall as €1,000 target slips

If you earn between €801 and €1,500 gross a month in Greece’s private sector, you are part of the 61% of workers whose pay barely moved in 2025, even as the minimum wage kept climbing . That gap, between the floor and the middle, is now the defin...

12/08/2026

4 min

Greek households lost 3.6% of real income in Q1 2026

Greek households just posted the worst quarterly result in the OECD. Real per capita household disposable income fell 3.6% in Q1 2026, the sharpest decline among the 21 OECD member states with comparable data. Austria, the next-worst performer, ...

12/08/2026

4 min

Greece 2027 social security cut: will you see it in your payslip?

If you work in Greece, a decision being weighed right now in Athens could shape what lands in your bank account next January. The labor ministry has put a proposal on the table to cut social security contributions by half a point to a full ...

12/08/2026

5 min

Greece's 2026 pension surge: 129,300 retirement applications, 70% women

Between January and July 2026, roughly 129,300 people in Greece filed to start drawing a pension. That is the highest nine-month total in nine years, according to figures reported by Efimerida ton Syntakton citing e-EFKA data. Seven in ten of ...

10/08/2026

5 min

Greece's €920 minimum wage masks a working-conditions crisis

Greece raised its gross statutory minimum wage to €920 per month in March 2026. On paper, that reads like progress. Look at the working week, the contract landscape and the vulnerability data behind that headline, and a different picture emerges: ...

03/08/2026

5 min

Greek pay-transparency law 5316/2026: what changes 1 November

On 1 November 2026, Greek workplaces cross a line that reshapes how salaries are set, disclosed, and defended. Law 5316/2026, published in the Government Gazette on 6 July 2026, transposes EU Directive 2023/970 on pay transparency , and the core ...

03/08/2026

4 min

86% of Greek workers cannot save despite economic growth

If you look at Greek headlines, the economy is doing well. If you look at your account balance at the end of the month, the picture is different. According to a June 2026 IOBE survey, 86% of Greek households cannot save anything. And per the ...

27/07/2026

5 min

Greece bans outdoor work in 43°C heat during 13:00–17:00

On Wednesday 22 July 2026, Greece runs a live test of whether gig-platform delivery riders actually stop working when the state tells them to. From 13:00 to 17:00, outdoor manual work is banned across Attica, Thessaly, eastern Central Greece and ...

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