Museums, sites may close at weekends - The Best from Greece

Posted on: 25/Nov/2011

 Union threatens to work only 5-day week unless new salary scale is extended

Guards employed at the country’s museums and archaeological sites have threatened to walk off the job on weekends – which would effectively close down all sites on Saturdays and Sundays – unless the government revokes new legal provisions that limits compensation for staff to a five-day week, Skai has learned.

“Following the failure of the Culture Ministry and other competent bodies to find a way of paying wages for work done by guards beyond the five-day week referred to in the new salary scale, we find ourselves obliged to immediately limit our employment to a five-day week,” the national union representing the guards said in a statement.

The statement called on authorities to solve the problem as soon as possible, suggesting that otherwise the nation’s museums and ancient sites would be closed to visitors at weekends

 

source: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_25/11/2011_416470

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