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Young doctors in Greece work up to 72 hours a week and record the highest overtime in Europe

The largest pan-European survey reveals systematic exceeding of legal working hours and little rest - Greek doctors' residents at the top of overtime

Kerameus to ProtoThema: “’13-Hour workday’ is fake news, just like the six-day workweek — Digital work card recorded 1.5 million extra overtime hours”

Minister of Labour and Social Security Niki Kerameus presented the main changes introduced by the new labour bill in an interview with ProtoThema and Giorgos Evgenidis, focusing on the “13-hour workday” regulation and the expansion of the digital work card

Metron Analysis survey: 9 out of 10 are in favour of reducing working hours

Strike mobilizations against the labor bill and the precision prepares the GSEE - 6 out of 10 disagree with the employment up to 13 hours

New bill on express recruitment and flexible working hours – What changes for summer leave and pensioners’ workers

Presented to today's cabinet - The changes aim to serve and protect workers and meet the needs of businesses

Bank working hours during Easter

By ministerial decree banks will also be closed on Tuesday, May 7th

The most productive working hours per generation (infographic)

Are You an Early Riser or a Night Owl

Working hours needed to escape poverty at minimum wage for families (infographic)

It is the worst in the US

Greece among countries with the longest work hours in the world: OECD (infographic)

Despite longer working hours, this did not result in higher levels of productivity

Greeks work the longest hours in Europe, OECD report shows

Germans are the most productive

How much do the Europeans work & how much the do the Greeks? (infograph)

Greece is first in Europe and third in the world