Author: enidea@epafos

The assignment of an employee to an indirect employer under a temporary employment contract is not allowed:

• when it replaces employees exercising the right to strike
• when in the previous six months the indirect employer had laid off employees of the same specialty for economic and technical reasons or, in the previous twelve months, had collectively laid off employees of the same specialties
• when the indirect employer is a company governed by public law
• when the tasks, by their very nature, pose particular risks to the health and safety of the employees. Such tasks are determined by a decision of the Minister for Labor and Social Security following an opinion from the Council for Health and Safety at Work
• when the employee is subject to special provisions for the insurance for building craftsmen.

A Temporary Employment Agency can be established by a natural or legal person with a capital of at least one hundred and seventy-six thousand and eighty-three euros (€176,083,00).

Each Temporary Employment Agency must, in order to carry out such activity, to submit two bank letters of guarantee as a financial guarantee, one to ensure the remuneration of its temporary employees and one to ensure the payment of their insurance contributions.

The first letter of guarantee is submitted to the Hellenic Ministry of Labor and Social Security and the second to the Social Insurance Institution (IKA). The amount of the letters of guarantee may be adjusted every two years by decision of the Minister for Labor and Social Security, depending on the number of temporary employees that the Agency has contracted with, and the Agencies shall submit the respective additional letters of guarantee within three months.