Niki Kerameos has accused the president of PASOK of irresponsible popularism that threatens the viability of small and medium-sized businesses and the economy.
In a highly critical intervention, Minister of Labour, Niki Kerameos, took a stand against the recent proposals of Nikos Androulakis on the reduction of working time.
The minister argued that promises to work 32 or 35 hours without a pay cut lacked economic realism and were a dangerous approach that could lead to mass lockouts and job losses.
Mrs Kerameos said that the country has left behind the era of unfulfilled promises, focusing on stability and the plan that brought unemployment to its lowest level in 17 years.
In her post, the minister said, “Mr. Androulakis, with a purely populist proposal that cannot be tolerated by Greek economy to reduce weekly working hours to 32 – 35 with full pay, announced in fact just before May Day, the closure of thousands of small and medium-sized enterprises and the passage to unemployment of hundreds of thousands of workers“.
The post by Kerameos is detailed:
