Official unemployment data show the clear impact of the pandemic. In July, the number of jobless seeking employment was 1,095,997 or almost 13% higher than the 970,201 registered jobless in July 2019.

Unemployment in Cyprus fell slightly in July from the previous month, according to statistics from Cystat. 

Greece’s jobless rate rose to 17.0% in May from an upwardly revised 15.7% reading in the previous month, data from the country’s statistics service ELSTAT showed on Thursday.

A joint ministerial decision allowing private sector employers to work from home, a measure that was implemented in the past few months by many businesses as a way to prevent coronavirus infections, has been extended for two months, until September 30.

Greece’s jobless rate rose to 15.5 percent in April from an upwardly revised 14.5 percent reading in the previous month, data from the country’s statistics service ELSTAT showed on Thursday.

Civil servants who belong to high-risk groups will return to work on Wednesday as the special leave of absence due to the coronavirus has ended. 

Greece’s jobless rate fell to 16.2% in the first quarter from 16.8% in the fourth quarter of 2019, data by the country’s statistics service ELSTAT showed on Thursday.

Greece’s jobless rate dropped to 14.4 percent in March from a downwardly revised 15.9 percent reading in the previous month, data from the country’s statistics service ELSTAT showed on Thursday. 

The ministers of finance and labor submitted an amendment Wednesday which provides that the state will not only cover 60 percent of the salary lost by workers whose working hours were reduced due to the coronavirus pandemic, but also 60 percent of employers’ insurance contributions for employees who have been included in the labor subsidy program.

A lower court in Athens sided with an employee who worked with successive fixed-term employment contracts in a kindergarten from 2007 to 2018, ruling that these contracts constitute a single contract of indefinite duration.

Greece’s jobless rate dropped to 14.4 percent in March from a downwardly revised 15.9 percent reading in the previous month, data from the country’s statistics service ELSTAT showed on Thursday.

The union of Public Power Corporation workers (GENOP/DEH) has happily accepted a proposal from the utility’s management regarding redundancy incentives for employees with full pension rights working at the West Macedonia Lignite Center and the subsidiaries Meliti Lignite and Megalopoli Lignite that are being prepared for privatization. 

As part of efforts to boost businesses, which have already taken a strong hit from the coronavirus pandemic, while also helping the unemployed, whose numbers are expected to rise amid the new crisis, the government is planning to partially subsidize wages lost by employees whose full-time contracts have been reduced to part-time while introducing a coupon scheme as a cash incentive for employers to hire unemployed workers. 

Greece’s jobless rate fell to 16.1 percent in February compared to a downwardly revised 16.2 percent reading in the previous month, data from the country’s statistics service ELSTAT showed on Thursday.

The special 800-euro compensation was credited on Monday to 105,853 workers in Greece whose labor contracts with businesses deemed non-essential during the coronavirus pandemic have been suspended, as the second phase of handouts has started.

Labor Minister Yiannis Vroutsis on Thursday responded to accusations of incompetency by opposition parties over a series of problematic distance training voucher programs for scientists and self-employed professionals which were scrapped on Wednesday amid widespread criticism that they were makeshift and of low quality.

The government has scrapped its distance training voucher programs for scientists and self-employed professionals amid criticism from opposition parties that they were a makeshift and below par initiative.

Memories of Greece’s bailout years are returning as a result of the macroeconomic shocks caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the International Monetary Fund, which however is also predicting a return to growth in 2021.

Unemployment in the eurozone fell to a 12-year low in February, the month before coronavirus containment measures began to be introduced widely across Europe. 

The Justice Ministry has taken special measures to protect court employees who are obliged to work in the minority of cases being heard by Greek judges.