Source: https://eplex.ilo.org/country-detail/?code=GRC&yr=2009
Timestamp: 2020-08-15 07:27:35
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Matched Legal Cases: ['art. 1', 'art. 2', 'Art. 2', 'art. 1', 'art. 5', 'art. 3']

% of workforce under FTC: 12.1
Source: Eurostat, annual average for 2009
The law does not expressly provide for a statutory probationary period. However, under art. 1 of the Act 2112/1920, together with art. 2 and 4 of Act 3198/1995, statutory notice and severance pay requirements do not apply to white-collar workers who have worked for less than 2 months. With regard to the dismissal of blue-collar workers, no notice is required (see below) but the severance pay requirements only apply to workers with at least two months of service.
New: These thresholds were established by Article 74(1) of Act 3863/2010 in July 2010.
1) White-collar workers:
Art. 2 and 4 of the Act No. 3198/1955, together with art. 1 of the Act 2112/1920.
In the event of dismissal for any reasons, the employee is entitled to severance pay, the amount of which is depends on the length of service and on whether the notice period has been observed or not.
- If the employer dismisses a white-collar worker with notice, the worker will be entitled to half of the severance indemnities payable in the event of termination without notice, that is half of wages due for the notice period.
- Termination without notice: severance pay amounts to the wages corresponding to the entire notice period:
* 30 days' wages for employees who have worked for at least 2 months but not more than one year;
* 60 days' wages for 1 year but not more than 4 years of service;
* 3 months' wages for at least 4 years but not more than 6 years of service;
* 4 months' wages for at least 6 years but not more than 8 years of service;
* 5 months' wages for at least 8 years but not more than 10 years of service;
* 6 months' wages for more than 10 years of service;
* Severance pay is increased by 1 month for each extra year of service after 10 years, up to a maximum of 24 months' wages (for employee's with over 28 years' service).
2) Dismissal (for any reason, including redundancies) of a blue-collar worker, statutory severance pay varies according to the length of service, as follows:
- from 2 months to 1 year of service: 5 days' wages
- from 1 year to 2 years of service: 7 days' wages
- from 2 years to 5 years of service: 15 days;
- from 5 to 10 years of service: 30 days' wages
- from 10 to 15 years of service: 60 day's wages
- from 15 to 20 years of service: 90 days' wages
- 20 years of service or more: 105 days' wages
(See art. 5 of Royal Decree 16/18 July 1920)
However this has been increased by various National General Collective Agreement, the most recent being that of 2005-2007. The provision on severance pay (art. 3) of this NGCA remains applicable, although new NCGA have since been concluded.
Therefore, according to those NCGAs, severance pay is set as follows:
- from 2 months to 15 years of service: same as statutory severance pay
- from 15 to 20 years of service: 100 days' wages;
- from 20 to 25 years of service: 120 days' wages;
- from 25 to 30 years of service: 145 days' wages;
- 30 years of service and above: 165 days' wages.