K. Hatzidakis for national pension: Mr. Tsaklogou asks for the implementation of the Katrougalos and Vroutsi laws

“Mr. Tsaklogou enforces the law, as noted by the publications themselves that speak of alleged cuts”, to those who receive a disability and a widow’s pension, stressed the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Kostis Hatzidakis.

Speaking at the First Program, Mr. Hatzidakis pointed out that there has been legislation for years – with the Katrougalos law and then with the Vroutsis law – which speaks of a national pension. “In all of Europe, where there is this system, there is a national pension. This system has been reproduced in Greece, and this is what Mr. Tsaklogou asks to be implemented by the competent authorities of EFKA. What could he say? He could “Should the law be violated? Let those who are protesting at the moment tell us,” he said. He clarified that “we are not talking about compensatory pensions, we are talking about the national pension”. “This is provided for all over Europe. In Greece, this is provided for by law, and I wonder if anyone is asking a deputy minister to violate the law,” he noted.

Asked about the circular issued after the Katrougalos law in 2016, which said that it was not considered appropriate to proceed with the new reductions and which was respected by all subsequent Ministers of Labor and Mr. Vroutsis, Mr. Hatzidakis reiterated that the Katrougalos law and The Vroutsi law was specific and “if there were circulars in another direction, it was obviously out of the letter and the spirit of the law. “”.

“And I do not know how fair it is to have two-speed retirees. That is, to have retirees who are the” suckers “who receive a national pension as provided by law, but to have others next door, who due to various windows can get two national pensions. “How fair is this and how much the vast majority of those who are listening to us at the moment, can agree with such logics,” he underlined.

For work suspensions

The Minister of Labor clarified about the suspension of work, saying that activities are included that were limited due to the relevant measures taken by the government, such as bars and restaurants with music. The owners have the opportunity to use this measure which means that the employees who will join will receive 534 euros and the owners promise not to fire them. “We have taken another measure for the artists, especially for the musicians, with the so-called unilateral suspensions, as we do not have a contract of employment, but a contract of services, and there is essentially a variation of the same measure,” he noted.

According to the JMC, employees who have been hired until December 30, 2021 can be included in the suspension of employment contracts. because when the employer hired that employee who he could not then employ because of the measures, he did not know that these measures would be taken, but he could not hire other employees from there and include them in that measure, because in that case, it seems he wants to use the taxpayers’ money simply to circumvent the law. ”

Regarding the companies where there is a drop in turnover such as restaurants, he clarified that there will be a proportional application of the measure, and for this reason relevant controls will be carried out. “That is, it would be a bit paradoxical for a restaurant to have a dj and it works, but it works limitedly without the dj, while it has, for example, 10 employees, it seems that it has suspended them 8. How does it work, then? “a logic that exists, there will be audits by the competent auditors of the Corps of Labor Inspectors and other authorities,” he stressed.

Specifically for the special purpose compensation for the artists, he explained that it was decided to be eligible those who had been included in the Register of Artists until January 10, 2021, because “there was a wave of various” artists “who began to declare themselves when it became clear that such meters, while until then they had not been declared anywhere, they did not exist as artists. Therefore, it is obvious to the State that there was this wave in order to collect the relevant grants and not because they were real artists. “Real artists know this and have no objection to this measure.”

He added that for musicians there are unilateral suspensions, because there are no employers in the strict sense of the term, there is no contract of employment. “There is a service contract, there is an artist who goes and works for a few days in a store, he is not an employee like the waiter,” he added.

Asked if the same measures would apply in the future to other sectors – if needed – such as gyms, Mr. Hatzidakis said he could not enter into this discussion, “because we would leave the main thing, which is to inform people. which are part of the KAD and we would go to scenarios that have nothing to do with today’s reality “. “The government is studying the developments in relation to the coronavirus, especially in relation to Omicron, the effects that it creates, and accordingly it is taking the appropriate measures. But because everyone is ahead and making scenarios, I would not like to be among them,” he said. characteristics.

Source: Ertnews.gr

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