“By the end of the year the roadmap to increase the BSE”
Facilitating stakeholders and employers to find tourism and catering through the Job Match application, the Minister of Labor and Social Security said, Ceramic Victoryin an interview with ERT television station.
The minister said, as unemployment has declined significantly in recent years, reaching 9%, there are businesses, especially in tourism and catering, who are looking for jobs to meet jobs and do not find, noting that the Ministry, along with the Public Employment Service (DBA), have put into operation Job Match.
“You go in and you declare your preferences, you put filters. At the same time, employers have also uploaded work-filters. When I put my filters as a candidate worker, the system automatically makes the conjunction between my own preferences and jobs that the employer offers and gives me a list of businesses that meet these conditions. As soon as I see something I am interested in, a video call can be done immediately and interview on the spot. With this process, you can have a job in 2.5 minutes. This is the essence of facilitation. Already, we have 22,000 candidates from Job match last year and have been more than 46,000 conjugations in total, ”Ms Kerameos explained.
For the digital work card, which, as of March 1, 2025, has expanded to tourism and focus, the Labor Minister underlined that it shields employees as it records real -time work and protects healthy competition between businesses. Law, “said Mrs Kerameos, noting that when she took over at the Ministry of Labor, there were 150,000 workers protected by the card and now there are 1,500,000 workers.
The Minister of Labor also referred to recent data, which only in March recorded an increase in the reported overtime in the tourism industry by 637% compared to the corresponding month last year. At the same time, the minister also talked about the other sectors, adding that the retailer is 97%increased, 81%in the industry and catering by 55%.
“The digital work card has two components. The first piece is this card itself, which you scan it, to record the real time. The other element is the checks of the Labor Inspectorate, which comes and, if I, for example, am declared for a four -hour 08:00 to 12:00, but finds me at the workplace at 15:00, without having a hit card, it means that the work is not stated, “Mrs Kerameos said,
Regarding the repatriation of the Greeks, who left the years of crisis, looking for better jobs, Mrs Kerameos stressed that it was a debt to the Ministry of Labor to highlight the great professional opportunities our country has, reminding that events for this purpose were in November and November. It takes place on May 31 in Stuttgart, Germany and the next stop will be the United States of America.
“We don’t go there on our own. We go with large Greek businesses, who are looking for specialized staff. (…) Each company offers jobs and interviews on the spot. There is a company that did more than 400 interviews in one day and did recruitment obviously. I will say an example, a company came in London, who told us that he is doing a very big project with drones and has been searching for three years specialized drones and had not found them for three years. He came to London at the Rebrain Greece event and in one day he found four Greeks and made them on the spot, “the Labor Minister noted.
Asked about collective agreements, Mrs Kerameos replied that there is a significant room for improvement. “However, for this to happen, a robust institutional framework is required, which will also give the right incentives for the conclusion of collective agreements, but the representatives of employees and employers need to be sitting at the same table. What do we do? We have begun a process and, in fact, today, there is a meeting at the Ministry of Labor with all national social partners, to discuss optimal practices across Europe, to put down the best practices in the Member States of the European Union, what practices and motivation for other countries. To discuss all this together with the social partners in a single working group, to subsequently submit the social partners to their proposal and, by the end of the year, we will have released the road map on how to move on to the increase in collective agreements, with the enhancement of the workplace.
Concerning the Legislative Work of the Ministry of Labor, Mrs Kerameos announced that there would be a labor bill next time, which will mainly aim for simplification and bureaucracy reduction for all and for employees and businesses. “For example, why do you need four documents to upload one recruitment and not be able to get into a document to facilitate everyone? We are not yet ready to discuss in depth, I mean publicly, we are working in great detail all these issues, there will obviously be a thorough dialogue with social partners on all issues, ”she clarified.
Finally, regarding the arrangement to improve the collection of insurance contributions by KEAO, the Minister of Labor clarified the following: “These are not collecting companies. We are making an international competition in order to bring legal entities to private law in order to support EFKA in debt collection. The collection will be collected exclusively by EFKA, as it is explicitly provided for the provision of law that the collection can be done exclusively by EFKA, as is apparently the execution. So what will they do? The approach will be personalized and will suggest a personalized solution. Instead of telling him I will take your home, they will come with a much milder approach and with a set of tools, to push the insured to comply with his obligations. It is important that, in this way, we can create fiscal space so that we can return to society. “
