Ratification of company labour regulation
Application for the ratification of a work regulation or amendment of a labour regulation.
The application is submitted in duplicate to the competent Departments for Coordination of Labour Relations Inspection (DCLRI) of the Regional Directorates of Labour Relations Inspection (paragraph 2.ia of article 2 of Law 3996/2011, article 47 of Presidential Decree 134/2017). The local competence of the DCLRI is defined on the basis of the place where the head office of the enterprise is located.
Submitted by the applicant (in person or by post)
Enterprises, establishments or operations in general, regardless of their legal form and whether they belong to a natural or legal person, are obliged to draw up labour regulations if they employ more than 70 persons. By decision of the Ministry of Labour, this obligation may be extended to undertakings employing fewer than 70 persons, but not fewer than 40.
The procedure concerns the ratification of a labour regulation for private undertakings by the Labour Inspectorate.
For the submission and discussion of the labour regulations, an administrative fee of eighty (80) euros is established. For the modification of the regulations, an administrative fee of sixty (60) euros is established. The above applies to enterprises or holdings employing up to seventy (70) workers. The administrative fee is issued by the Tax Office and is deposited in a special account held by the National Bank of Greece for the benefit of the Higher Council of Labour. *Businesses and operations carried out under or on behalf of the Greek State are excluded.
A fee of three hundred (300) euros shall be set for the submission and discussion of the labour regulations. A fee of one hundred (100) euros shall be charged for the amendment of the rules of procedure. The above shall apply to undertakings or holdings employing between seventy-one (71) and one hundred and eighty (180) workers. *Businesses and operations carried out under or on behalf of the Greek State are excluded.
An administrative fee of four hundred and forty (440) euros shall be set for the submission and discussion of the labour regulations. A fee of one hundred and fifty (150) euros shall be charged for the amendment of the rules of procedure. The above shall apply to undertakings or establishments employing more than one hundred and eighty (180) workers.
Administrative Fee (not provided by e-paravolo webpage)
Solemn Declaration of the legal representative of the undertaking indicating the exact number of staff employed by the undertaking and that the undertaking does not have an operational association or a works council.
Eight (8) copies of the company Work Regulation
Department of Labour Relations Inspection Coordination
The regulations are drawn up by the employer and the agreement of the staff covered by the regulations is not required. However, the relevant employees trade union organisation is allowed to appeal to the Department of Labour Regulations against the provisions of the Regulations that are contrary to the laws or their implementing decrees or Ministerial Decisions. In order for the Regulation to become effective, sanction by the Administration is required. Sanctioning for private enterprises is carried out by the Labour Inspectorate, while for enterprises-operations owned or operated by the State as well as for those of municipalities, communities, legal entities under public law, banks and clinics, sanctioning is carried out by a joint decision of the Minister of Labour, Social Security and the Minister in charge of supervision.
Fixing the amount of the fee for the submission and adoption of labour regulations.
On amending and supplementing certain provisions of the Labour Law.
Clarifications on submitting for ratification staff work regulations drawn up unilaterally by the employer, in accordance with Legislative Decree 3789/1957, in compliance with Article 11 of Law 4808/2021 and Ministerial Decision (ΥΑ) no. 82063/2021
The consultation on the policies set out in Articles 9 and 10 of Law 4808/2021 shall be conducted as follows:
Content of Labour Regulations and Operational Collective Labour Contracts
Submission of the application and verification of supporting documents by the Head or by an employee of the Department for the Coordination of Labour Relations Inspection.
Staff shall file the application and assign a protocol number from PAPYRUS
Forwarding of the dossier from the Department for the Coordination of Labour Relations Inspection to the Three-member Committee of the PD 369/1989, which operates in each regional section.
Date of discussion shall be set by the Committee.
Discussion and briefing of the business on the proposed changes.
After the re-submission of the Regulation it shall be re-checked.
Opinion of the Committee and transmission of the dossier to the labour relations inspection department that belongs to the companys head office.
Control of the regulation and approval of the regulation by means of an administrative act on the subject of approval of the regulation, signed by the Head of Coordination Department for Labour Relations Inspection at the headquarters of the company.
After the administrative act has been issued, the undertaking shall receive a copy of the Regulation. The regulation comes into force after its ratification and as long as the publicity requirement of the law is met, i.e. as long as the regulation is posted and is "at all times posted in conspicuous and accessible places in the workplace for employees (paragraph 2 of Article 1 of L.D. 3789/57). By Royal Decree of 24 Jun. 1958 "On the establishment, procedure for the submission, ratification, notification and publication of labour regulations" (Government Gazette 103, issue A, of 8 July 1958), the details of the procedure for the submission, processing and publication of labour regulations are laid down.
Forwarding of the dossier to a Three-member Commission
Setting a date for discussion by the committee
Discussion of the committee in the presence of the employer
Re-submission of the Regulation with amendments
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