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Decision on the 16th item on the agenda: Reports of the Officers of the Governing Body Fifth report: Representation alleging...

Inequalities and middle-income groups

Crisis has aggravated long-term erosion of European middle class

The financial crisis and changing employment relationships have caused the middle class in most EU countries to contract over the past decade.

Labour Market Measures in Greece 2008–13: The Crisis and Beyond

This report is an analysis of the main policy responses undertaken by Greece in order to deal with the labour market and social policy contingencies created by the need to correct the huge internal and external imbalances that the 2007–08 global...

ILO technical assistance

ILO to support Greece in boosting labour market policies and the social economy

The ILO Director-General today met with Greek ministers, worker and employer representatives in Athens to discuss the country's response to economic and unemployment issues.

Report of the Commission of Inquiry appointed to examine the observance by Greece of Conventions Nos. 87 and 98, 1969

ILO welcomes the reactivation of social dialogue in Greece

The Governance of Policy Reforms in Southern Europe and Ireland: Social dialogue actors and institutions in times of crisis

This edited volume provides an overview of the changes that have occurred in industrial relations systems in southern Europe and Ireland as a result of the debt crisis and subsequent fiscal consolidation policies. The authors take stock of...

Studies on Growth with Equity

Greece: Productive Jobs for Greece

The aim of the Studies on Growth with Equity series is to show how strong and well-designed employment, labour and social protection measures are central – in combination with supportive macroeconomic policy – to building sustainable, job-rich and...

Greece employment

Greece needs to address risk of a prolonged social crisis

A new ILO report calls for additional measures to support jobs and enterprises, plus social protection and a stop to further wage cuts in the country.

Media advisory

ILO to launch new report on the Greek employment situation

Social dialogue

Conclusions of the Greek Tripartite High Level meeting

Conclusions agreed between the Greek Social Partners and the Ministry of Labour At the High Level Meeting facilitated by the ILO Director-General.

Social dialogue and labour law

ILO hosts top-level talks to restart social dialogue on Greek labour questions

Gathering of government, worker and employer representatives discussed Greek industrial relations and labour issues.

Studies on Growth with Equity

Crisis responses, competitiveness and jobs

This publication is the outcome of a joint project of the Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs, and Inclusion of the European Commission and the Research Department of the ILO.

European Social Model Conference

Presentation Greece: "Drastic changes in workers’ rights and employment conditions in Greece to achieve internal devaluation"

Presentation by Maria Karamessini, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences Athens, for the ILO-EU conference on the European Social Model.

Working Paper No. 53, "Assessing the impact of the memoranda on Greek labour market and labour relations"

This paper is part of a series of studies funded by the European Commission in the framework of a project of the International Labour Organization (ILO) on “Promoting a balanced and inclusive recovery from the crisis in Europe through sound...

Labour inspection and undeclared work in the EU

The purpose of this study is to consider the role that national labour inspection systems in the EU have as part of a strategic policy response to undeclared work. It was coordinated by the ILO’s Labour Administration and Inspection Programme...

Tackling the Jobs Crisis in Greece: Which Ways forward?

Speech by the ILO Director-General at the High-level Seminar on the jobs crisis in Greece

Media advisory

ILO conference: Tackling the jobs crisis in Greece

Greece ratifies the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006 (MLC, 2006)

Greece has become the 32nd ILO member State and the tenth EU member State to have ratified this landmark Convention.

I.B. v. Greece

The complainant alleged that his employer terminated his employment on the basis of his HIV status.