​​Central

The central Government is responsible for:

• Managing EU and other funds related to human resources development; and
• Representing Greece to the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and collaborating with other international organisations.
• Ensuring dignified and sustainable working conditions
• Contributing to the mitigation of social exclusion and to the labour market integration of the unemployed and of the socially vulnerable groups.
• Controlling and sanctioning any violation of the existing labour market legislation
• Protecting employees from the employer's potential exploitative behaviour.
• Drafting labour-marker inclusion policies
• Promoting long-term and full-time employment

The Labour Inspectorate Body investigates and prosecutes violations of labour law, illegal employment and uninsured working in the private sector.

The main organisations supervised by the Ministry are:

• The Organisation for the Employment of Working Manpower (OAED); and
• The National Institute of Labour and Human Resources (EIEAD).

Regional

Regional authorities are responsible for:

• Implementing and, in certain cases, designing and evaluating, action programmes and initiatives in the framework of national and European policies that aim to promote employment and social integration;
• Approving or rejecting collective redundancies and extending consultations between employer and employees; (shared competence between central and regional level. The latter depends on whether the branches of the enterprise are established in one or more prefectures);
• The imposition of fines to employers that infringe employment legislation;
• The formation of councils and committees under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Labour and Social Security with the exceptions foreseen in para. 8 of Article 77 of Law 3996/2011;
• Regulation of special holidays for special categories of employees (e.g. employees of theatre companies) and the granting of compensatory rest periods for employees on other days except Sunday; and
• Extending the obligation of keeping Diary of Security measures for buildings to small towns of less than 10,000 habitants;
• Ensuring gender equality through the Regional Committee for Gender Equality.       
• Reviewing and approving the establishment of new public companies, the merging of public companies, the dissolution or restructuring of public companies.
• Maintaining the registry of public companies.

Municipal authorities are responsible for:

• Implementing or participating in comprehensive local plans and action programmes and initiatives with the aim of promoting employment under national and European policies;
• Contributing to local employability and equal access to the labour market with advisory activities provided free for the unemployed with the establishment of Municipal and Community Information Offices for Employment, in cooperation with public institutions and local businesses.
• Licensing of certain categories of professions- especially the ones that have direct impact upon the local environment;
• Defining working-time limits for certain categories of professions.

Responsible ministries/bodies

Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Social Solidarity

Sources

Ministry of Labour, Social Security and Social Solidarity according to Presidential Decree 134/2017 (O.G.168/ 6-11-2017)

Law 3463/2006(OJ Α 114/30.6.2006) 'Code for Municipalities and Communities', Articles 75 and 85.

Law 3852/2010 (OJ Α 87/7.6.2010) 'Reorganisation of Local Government - Kallikratis  Programme', Article 186.