What is it and how does it affect workers

A new term comes to the fore in industrial relations, In the context of promoting flexible formulas from hiring. These are zero hour contracts, in which the employer can use the employee as often as he wants. In the new bill Promoted, relevant community guidance is incorporated in order to institutionalize the necessary “safety net” in the execution of contracts and to prevent breach phenomena.

Talking to Naftempuriki TV And to Takis Spiliopoulos, tax expert Andreas Calligas explained exactly what this contract means for employees.

“The employer will hire the employee without set hours. He will put him on standby, and will cover his honors, allowances and other obligations, but his schedule will be as he sees fit. He will call him to work when and for as long as needed.” This means that the employee will paid By the hour, with no commitment to working minimum hours.

“The Chineseization of labor relations”

According to Mr. Callegas, many companies are already implementing this business model informally. “For example, a catering company has a lot of work on Saturday and calls the employee, while it does not need him the next day. He pointed out that the zero-hour work contract means that the company hired him, and set an hourly wage for him, but did not specify his working hours and the duration of need. mechanism “.

The tax expert even commented that this is a “Sinification of labor relations in Greece”, which, he said, is unfortunately happening because the European Union. It is required to compete with Asian markets.

Parallel work 13 hours

Mr. Callegas said attention should be paid to the fall and how it relates to the parallel employment model. From now on, as the relevant community directives also state, an employer will not be able to prevent an employee from working for other employers, outside of predetermined working hours.

However, the Community Code clearly states that in 24 hours an employee must have 11 hours of rest. This means that if he works 8 hours for one employer, he can work no more than 5 hours per second. In other words, parallel work will not be allowed for more than 13 hours a day.