Pavlakis - Moschos & Associates

M. Pavlakis - C. Moschos & Associates is dedicated to the protection and assertion of the rights of workers and employees for:

Greek Employment Law, which has been substantially affected by Greece's membership of the European Community, has always provided a wide spectrum of laws and legal instruments thus offering an indispensable platform for the protection of the rights of employees. Greek and foreign employees and workers in Greece have, inter alia, the following rights:

to sign a written contract of employment and / or to be served with a written statement of their principal terms and conditions of employment,
minimum wage prescribed by the Greek National Collective Agreement or the Collective Agreement applicable to the job type they are performing,
overtime payment if they are working over the time-limit prescribed by law,
night allowance and travelling - sustenance allowance if they are working during the night or away from their basis of work, respectively,
Sunday and Public Holiday allowance (extra-payment), if they are working on Sundays and/or during Public Holidays;
annual paid leave and leave allowance from the very first year of their employment,
Christmas and Easter benefit: as a general rule Christmas benefit equals to a month's salary, while Easter's benefit to ½ of a month's salary,
maternity leave,
dismissal compensation if they are unreasonably dismissed before the end of their fixed-term contract or at any time if they are working under a non fixed-term contract of employment.

Our firm is especially experienced in the protection of foreign employees' rights in Greece and our lawyers are in close collaboration with several foreign embassies in Greece, who refer their citizens to our firm for consultation and eventual prosecution of claims against their employers.

It should be noted that foreign employees and workers in Greece have the same rights as Greek employees and workers and must be paid at least the minimum provided for the by the respective Greek Collective Agreements.