“It is an important regulation,<\/b> which comes to support an industry which is objectively very demanding and important.”<\/p>\n
Significant improvements to the main and supplementary insurance scheme for old nurses<\/strong>, nursing assistants, ambulance drivers and ambulance assistants<\/b>– rescuers will be brought by their inclusion in the heavy and unhealthy ranks, announced on Tuesday by Labour Minister Niki Kerameos.<\/b><\/p>\n According to reports, the legislation being prepared by the government will cover all workers in the specific specialties<\/strong> of EESY and EKAB who were hired before 2011,<\/strong> aiming to put an end to a chronic inequality, as their younger colleagues are already covered by the provisions on heavy and unhealthy occupations.<\/p>\n “This is an intervention that restores fairness and equal treatment<\/b> for frontline staff in the public health system, satisfying a just demand of older workers<\/b> who provide the same services, under the same conditions, as their younger colleagues,” a government official involved in the preparation of the regulation said.<\/p>\n The first estimate is thatthe potential beneficiaries are more than 23,000.<\/strong><\/p>\n “It is a budgeted<\/b> measure, absolutely within the fiscal margin<\/b> ensured by the good performance of the economy and the prudent management of state resources,” added a second source with knowledge of the discussions that took place.<\/p>\n After the implementation of the changes<\/b>, old nurses in the public health system<\/b> and old public ambulance crews will be able to fully retire<\/b> up to five years earlier, at 62 years of age,<\/b> provided they meet the conditions for paying the relevant contributions.<\/p>\n At the same time, for the first time, affiliation to supplementary insurance<\/strong> will be regulated in a comprehensive manner, through a single procedure with the main one, while it will also be possible to recognise and redeem earlier insurance periods, with payment either in a lump sum or in instalments.<\/p>\n It should be noted that, according to government officials<\/b> with knowledge of the case, the insurance time<\/b> that will be bought back will be counted as actual<\/b>, not as plastic<\/b>, so it will not be counted and will not affect the maximum amount of notional time that a worker can buy back in order to accelerate the establishment of pension entitlement.<\/p>\n “It is an important regulation that comes to support an industry that is objectively very demanding and important,” noted a third source, who has worked extensively on the policies that have been implemented in recent years<\/b>in the health sector.<\/p>\n The same source noted that while this measure is targeted, it is part of a broader context of real support<\/strong> for the income of those employed in the public health system over the past six years, following interventions such as regular salary increases, the self-taxation of on-call duties and additional incentives for service in marginal areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “It is an important regulation, which comes to support an industry that is objectively very demanding and important”.Significant improvements …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greece"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The benefits<\/h3>\n