Strong reactions of trade unionists to the revocation of permits by the Minister of Labor

The reactions of the trade unions of the employees in the funds (POSE-EFKA, POPOKP) are strong in the decision of the Minister of Labor, Mr. Kostis Hatzidakis to call the commander of e-EFKA to suspend all the leave of the employees at Christmas due to the tax reducing outstanding pensions.

In its announcement, POSE-EFKA states that Mr. Hatzidakis imposes a “Military Law” on the employees of e-EFKA “. -EFKA), now imposing a universal ban and revocation of the licenses of its employees during the festive period, citing the alleged rapid issuance of outstanding pensions and the need for smooth operation of the services of the institution. Unfortunately, it escapes the Minister, that the majority of the employees of our institution, do not ask to receive the days of normal leave that they are entitled to for 2021, but those that they should have received by 2020 (sic). Which they did not receive, due to the pressures and threats they received and continue to receive from the current political leadership, in the context of an inhuman intensification of work, which no longer respects, not even this “sacred right” to leave ” .

For its part, POPOKP states that “The Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Mr. Hatzidakis, in order to abdicate his responsibilities for the tragic situation in which EFKA has fallen due to its deep understaffing, its outdated equipment, the conflicting instructions of the His administrations, the implementation and legislative gaps, the unworthiness and intimidation of the employees, and to hide them under the cloak of social automation that he incites by assuming his duties, asks the Administration of the Institution to revoke and transfer all the licenses of “It’s as if the problem of the thousands of outstanding pensions will be solved by revoking the leave of workers who experience daily job extermination.”