From 1.1.2024, the suspension of the validity of provisions of laws, regulatory acts, collective agreements or arbitration decisions, which provide for increases in salaries or daily wages, including those related to seniority, is lifted, with the sole condition that a specific working time has passed, such as multi-year allowance, the working time allowance, the three-year allowance and the five-year allowance, which was imposed by article 4 of no. 6/28.2.2012 Act of the Council of Ministers (A' 38), which was issued under the authorisation of par. 6 of article 1 of Law 4046/2012 (A' 28).
For the application of the provisions of par. 1. The suspension of which is lifted, the following shall apply:
The length of service of each employee, who was hired before 14.2.2012, as this length of service was formed on 14.2.2012 when its completion was suspended, continues to be completed after 1.1.2024.
The seniority of each employee, who was hired after 14.2.2012, will be completed after 1.1.2024.
Especially for the increase due to seniority for those employees who are paid the minimum statutory salary or daily wage, seniority is recognised as the time of a dependent contract or employment relationship, which has been spent with any employer and in any speciality before 14.2.2012 and after 1.1.2024. The above seniority increment is determined as follows:
For employees with a dependent employment relationship, at a rate of ten percent (10%) for each three years of service and up to three (3) three years and a total of thirty percent (30%) for a service of nine (9) years or more.
For artisans, with a dependent employment relationship at a rate of five percent (5%) for each three years of service and up to six (6) three years and a total of thirty percent (30%) for a service of eighteen (18) years or more.
If the paid regular wages are higher than the legal wages, the increases, the increments and the amounts in general resulting from the application of paragraphs 1 to 3, are set off against the difference between the paid and legal wages, with the payment of which they are fully or partially repaid.
For the time period from 14.2.2012 to 31.12.2023, no claim arises, nor are salary or daily wage increases due, including those related to seniority, with the sole condition that a certain working time has passed, as mentioned in par. 1, 2 and 3, nor is it allowed to calculate seniority from 14.2.2012 to 31.12.2023.
From 1.1.2027, if the unemployment rate exceeds ten per cent (10%), and until it falls below ten per cent (10%), the validity of the provisions referred to in par. 1. For the implementation of the first paragraph, the average of the national unemployment rate of the last four quarters, as reflected in the Labour Force Survey of the Hellenic Statistical Authority, is taken into account.
By a joint decision of the Ministers of National Economy, Finance, and Labour and Social Security, the procedure of self-righteous suspension of force, which is provided for herein, may be specified. By Act of the Council of Ministers, after a specially reasoned recommendation of the Minister of Labour and Social Security and after the opinion of the social partners of the par. 3 of article 134 of the Individual Labour Law Code (p.d. 80/2022, A' 222), the terms and conditions for suspending the validity of the present and beyond the cases of application of par. 6 may be decided, to ensure the stability of the national economy, taking into account in particular the evolution of unemployment and inflation.
As of 1.1.2024, article 4 of no. 6/28.2.2012 Act of the Council of Ministers.