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Workers in coffins and ‘customers’ on sunbeds: employers’ incredible tricks to dodge the digital work card

Labour Inspectorate officers report increasingly elaborate ruses this summer season, with staff hiding inside coffins, refrigerated units and changing rooms, or posing as sunbathing customers, as employers scramble to dodge Greece's digital work card checks

Digital work card: “2.1 million declared overtime hours in the first five months of 2025” – What Karagounis also says about reducing unemployment

The Deputy Minister of Labour and Social Security, Kostas Karagounis, spoke of a "spectacular" reduction in unemployment, saying that "in May 2025 unemployment will be at 7.9%"

Digital work card: Pilot implementation starts today in wholesale, energy and financial sectors

Which sectors are being piloted from today

Digital work card to be fully implemented in tourism and catering from March 1st

The Digital Work Card has already been implemented in banks, large supermarkets, insurance companies, security firms, public utilities, the industrial sector, and retail

Hotel owners are on the rails for the digital work card

The industry argues that the system fails to account for the unique nature of hotel operations – Starting March 1, 2025, hotels will be subject to the full implementation of the Digital Work Card

Digital Work Card: What applies for the employees – Who is affected by the measure from 1 July

When it starts - The new data on six-day working