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Athens Macedonian News Agency: News in English, 13-09-14
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[01] Crackdown on 'black' labour from Sunday
[01] Crackdown on 'black' labour from Sunday
ANA-MPA -- Sweeping inspections by more than 1,000 labour ministry
inspectors and financial police will begin on Sunday throughout
the country, in a bid to crack down on uninsured 'black' labour and
contribution evasion. Fines for violations found, which can reach up to
10,550 euros per head, will be imposed on site without giving employers
the opportunity to go through a hearing first.
In an exclusive statement to the ANA-MPA, Labour Minister Yiannis Vroutsis
reported that the results of the 'Ergani' system showing the flow of
hiring and firing in real time had started to yield the first results,
showing a tendency for employers to comply with the law rather than risk
the hefty fines.
"According to the figures from Ergani, which is like a cardiogram of the
labour market, there was a jump in labour hiring on Friday that reached
9,486, the highest number of hirings in the month of September on record,"
the labour minister said.
He interpreted this as "signalling the rapid compliance of employers"
and said that the "countdown has begun since we are one day before the
start of sweeping inspections to locate uninsured workers."
Vroutsis also issued a "final warning" to employers, saying that mixed
teams of labour ministry inspectors, IKA inspectors and financial police
will take to the streets on Sunday throughout the country and impose a
fine of 10,550 euros for each uninsured employee that they find.
"This is the highest fine ever imposed by a labour minister," he added.
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