Η Κρίση και τα Μνημόνια Ισοπεδώνουν την Εργασία
Abstract
The changes that take place in the field of employment during the period of the crisis and the Memoranda of Understanding in Greece are characterized by a violent shake-up of labour relations in the direction of labour deregulation, which has been recorded in the country progressively, but at a slower pace, since the early 1990s. The period of the Memoranda of Understanding that accompany the crisis presents an opportunity for the rapid intensification of the pace of the “labour market’s” deregulation, to the extent that, in such a short time, it contributed to the shaping of an entirely new labour landscape. These developments, in connection with the unprecedented postwar rates of unemployment, decisively affect the content of labour relations and cause serious side effects in the field of the living and working conditions, in combination with the ongoing deregulation of the always deficient welfare state in Greece. The complete disintegration of the system of collective bargaining and the manner of wage formation, the release of individual and collective redundancies, the flexibility of work schedules and the strengthening of flexible forms of work to the detriment of full-time and stable employment are the main pillars of the changes in question. These are coupled with drastic measures of restriction of the employment and degradation of work in the public sector, in the context of the convergence of the labour arrangements of the Public sector with the respective arrangement that is in effect in private enterprises, under terms of complete degradation and deregulation of work. The changes imposed on Greece by powerful national and international economic circles create a low-cost area of work, suitable for high profitability of capital within the eurozone area. At the same time, they trigger off the expansion of the Greek experiment to the rest of the European South, in a wider context of labour deregulation that has been recorded in the old continent, as a whole, over the past decades, and the adoption by the European Union of interventions in the labour market aiming at the competitiveness of enterprises and the flexibility of work, as their pillar for achieving lower “labour costs”.
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Κουζής Γ. (2017). Η Κρίση και τα Μνημόνια Ισοπεδώνουν την Εργασία. Social Policy, 6, 7–20. https://doi.org/10.12681/sp.10878
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