Eurostat: Greece’s first at work on weekends

In 2023, 22.4% of EU employees usually worked on weekends, it is reported in a Eurostat post dedicated to May Day, the day it is linked to workers’ struggles for rights, with a springboard for 1886 and 886 hours before 886 hours before 886 We want. « 

Work on weekends was more common among specialized workers in agriculture, forestry and fishing (49.5%), services and sales workers (48.9%) and those who carry out simple professional activities (26.7%), Eurostat reports.

Eurostat: champions Greeks at work on weekends

While 19.2% of employees usually worked on weekends, this figure reached 46.7% for self -employed with employees (employers) and 37.8% for self -employed without employees (freelancers).

Among EU countries, Greece had the highest percentage of employees working on weekends (32.3%), followed by Italy (30.9%) and Cyprus (26.4%). The lower rates were recorded in Lithuania (3.0%), Poland (4.5%) and Hungary (6.6%).

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Eurostat: Greece remains the poor EU relative

It is recalled that according to Eurostat data on poverty in 2024, Greece is the country with the third highest percentage of population at risk of poverty or social exclusion after Bulgaria and Romania, with significant deviation from the European average.

In Greece, poverty and social exclusion threaten 26.9% of the population, compared to 21% of the average of the EU, absolute numbers, the poor and excluded of Greece are 2,740,051 people. The situation in our country worsened between 2023 and 2024, as more than 80,000 additional people were added to the armies of the poor (an increase of 0.8%). The real numbers are bigger, since the poorest of the poor (homeless, Roma, imprisoned, population in structures, camps, institutions, hospitals) are invisible to official statistics.