The Deputy Minister of Labor, Vassilis Spanakis, spoke to ERTNews about the minimum wage: “March will be a positive month for many issues. First of all, on March 22nd there will be a proposal, as provided by the relevant provision of the Minister of Labor, Mrs. Michaelidou, to the cabinet, where this proposal results from a specific procedure for increasing the minimum wage and the minimum wage will have 8 in front.
We should emphasize that this is the fourth increase in the minimum wage brought by the Mitsotakis government. We see that at the moment the minimum wage after several years begins and enters an upward path, where this affects at least 25 benefits, maternity, unemployment and many other important ones”.
Mind you, that’s not all. It is that here we have a series of positive developments. So what we noticed, even before the government announced the new increase in the minimum wage, we see a lot of companies that increased the starting wage by themselves.
What is our aim, to increase the average salary and reach 1,500 euros by the end of the four-year period. So, the increase in the minimum wage and the average wage which is currently at 1,251 euros, we have a route to go to 1,500 euros. These two government goals that were our pre-election commitments, we see that they are in a good process.
Let’s go to the extent to which we fulfill our pre-election commitments. And I say this because we will have European elections and we will all be judged whether we implement what we say or not”.
Speaking about unemployment, Mr. Spanakis pointed out that “Greece is now talking about job vacancies. So, we currently have jobs that are not filled. In other words, there are employers who are listening to us right now and especially in the tourist areas who are currently very anxious to find workers. So Greece has left the high unemployment rates and we have gone to a Greece of job vacancies that we have to fill.
So, the Ministry of Labor’s bet has changed.
According to the Hellenic Statistical Authority, with the service of ELSTAT we have the following, we have a reduction in January 24 in unemployment for both women and young people.
The average salary today has gone to 1,251 euros when we came to the helm of the country as New Democracy, it was much lower and at the moment we have a clear target and we will achieve it”.
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