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18/08/2026

Greece's €1,000 minimum wage: what an €80 rise means for 2027

An 80-euro jump is on the table. If the scenario reported by Powergame holds, Greece's minimum wage moves from 920 to 1,000 euros gross at the start of 2027, well above the government's earlier programmatic commitment of 950 euros from April ...

13/08/2026

5 min

Greece Digital Work Card: 1,695 violations in H1 2024

Greek labour inspectors identified 1,695 Digital Work Card violations in the first half of the year, generating 7.22 million euros in fines. The pilot expansion is currently rolling through hospitals, telecoms, logistics, cleaning and other ...

12/08/2026

5 min

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: ...

10/08/2026

4 min

DYPA parental leave in Greece: up to €758/month, conditions apply

You have a child under eight, you want to take parental leave, and you have just found out that the Greek Public Employment Service (DYPA) pays a subsidy of up to €758 net per month for two months while you are away. Good news, until you read th...

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 ...

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