Greece’s informal job market totals more than 500,000 employees, according to a report by the labour supervisor force, published on Tuesday.
The report, based on the findings of inspections made on 27,538 enterprises - accounting for 3.0% of total enterprises in the country - with a workforce of 77,666, showed that 19,435 workers are not registered in special labour books.
The report also said that 6,687 or 31.54% of non-registered workers are foreign nationals, and 12,748 or 22.58% are Greek citizens.
The Attica region (26.29%), eastern Macedonia-Thrace (36.25%), Thessaly (24.66%), Epirus (19.21%) and Crete (17.21%) recorded the highest informal job market rates in the country. Supervisors imposed fines totaling 9,368,500 euros on enterprises judged to have breached labour laws.
“Our main goal is to create a new, more flexible and strong mechanism with the aim to coordinate inspections of the labour market and social insurance, and to aggressively deal with the phenomenon of non-registered labour,” Mihalis Halaris, special secretary of the Labour Supervisor Force told ANA-MPA.
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