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06/10/2026

Sick leave in Greece: can you be dismissed and who pays

You wake up with a fever, call in sick, and spend a week recovering. Many people assume their job is safe while they’re officially unwell. In Greece, that assumption is only partly right. Being on sick leave does not, on its own, shield you from ...

28/09/2026

4 min

Greece's €920 minimum wage lifts pay even as growth cools

If your payslip looked a little different from April, you are not imagining it. Greece's minimum wage moved from €880 to €920 on 1 April 2026, a 4.55% bump that lifted the statutory floor by €40 a month. What is less obvious, and more intere...

22/09/2026

6 min

Greece minimum wage 2027: what the €960 floor really costs employers

Greece's minimum wage rises to €960 gross on 1 April 2027, with a government target of €1,000 by January 2028. The headline reads as a win for 576,000 private-sector workers on the floor. For HR leaders running payroll models, workforce plans , ...

22/09/2026

4 min

Greek wages down 22.3% as heating costs surge 60%

Greek workers are the only workforce in the EU whose real wages have gone backwards over the last fifteen years. Eurostat figures put the decline at 22.3% between 2010 and 2025, against an EU-wide median real income rise of 25.4% over the same ...

16/09/2026

4 min

Greece's summer 2026 hiring: 632k jobs and what ERGANI shows

Greece's summer 2026 hiring numbers look enormous on paper: 632,537 people were hired in June and July. But 642,244 were let go in the same window, according to the ERGANI information system. The net figure is quietly negative, and the group ...

08/09/2026

6 min

Greece's two-speed wages meet the new 5% pay-transparency rule

Greece now runs on two parallel wage economies. On one track, roughly 900,000 full-time private-sector workers in firms with more than 10 employees are paid an average of €1,572.59 a month. On the other, about 250,000 salaried executives, tech sp...

08/09/2026

6 min

Why Greek employers offer meal vouchers instead of a pay rise

Your manager sits you down and says the good news: a €100 raise on your gross salary. You do the mental maths on the way home. New car service, maybe a weekend away. Then payday arrives and the extra is €55.44. The rest went to the state before i...

24/08/2026

5 min

Greece's €1,000 minimum wage: what HR should actually plan for

Greece's autumn policy calendar is about to hand HR leaders a set of numbers that look bigger in the headline than on the payroll ledger. Ahead of the Thessaloniki International Fair (ΔΕΘ), the government is weighing a minimum wage push toward €1...

24/08/2026

6 min

Greece's 47% youth wage jump: what it means for HR in 2026

If you are 22 and just signed a full-time contract in Athens, your paycheque this year looks 47% bigger than what a colleague your age took home in 2021. If you are 47 and doing the same job you have done for a decade, your net wages have grown ...

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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