The chief of SYRIZA’s Administrative Reform sector Alexis Mitropoulos issued a scathing criticism of the coalition government’s draft multi-bill which incorporates the agreement it recently came to with the troika, following months of negotiations.
Mr. Mitropoulos likens the draft to a “workplace Dachau” and argues that “the goal of the government and lenders is the enslavement of employees, the destitution of pensioners, the persecution of the lower and middle classes and the pauperization of farmers” as they “promote the most extreme, aggressive, anachronistic neoliberalism in Administration and work relations”.
According to SYRIZA the bill:
- Enforces a single minimum wage system without any increments or benefits due to studies, experience, family status etc.
- Abolishes the existing employer-employee relation by introducing a middleman company so that employees cannot claim any rights.
- Halves supplementary pensions ahead of their abolition.
- Reduces insurance contributions in a misguided attempt to equate wages and contributions to those of Bulgaria and Romania, depriving the Funds of necessary resources during such a critical humanitarian crisis.
- Abolishes a series f benefits that supported poorer households (such as marriage and parenthood)
Ultimate the multi-bill, which SYRIZA has dubbed as “the new bailout”, will cause a dramatic depreciation of the work force, the collapse of the insurance funds and abolish the worker rights that came after immense struggles and sacrifices.
