Strasbourg, 24.10.2012 – The head of a committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has called on the Greek authorities to modify two 2010 reforms to Greek labour law recently judged illegal by the European Committee of Social Rights.

Liliane Maury Pasquier (Switzerland, SOC), who chairs PACE’s Committee on Social Affairs, Health and Sustainable Development, said the decision to extend to one year the “trial period” during which workers can be dimissed without notice, and the decision to cut the minimum salary for workers under 25 to two-thirds of the national minimum wage, should be reviewed.

“Both these measures were last week found to be in violation of the European Social Charter, to which Greece has signed up,” said Mrs Maury Pasquier. “They should urgently be modified to bring them into line with the Council of Europe’s social standards.” (more...)

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