Greece
Registration procedures and residence permits
- As an EU/EEA citizen, you can enter Greece simply by showing a valid identity car or passport. There is no entry visa requirement.
- Workers in the EU/EEA have the right of establishment throughout the European Union / European Economic Area.EU/EEA citizens may enter Greece to seek employment and stay for six months (three months and a further three months if they are looking for work).
- Form E 303 or U2 gives an unemployed person who is looking for work entitlement to unemployment benefit for three months. Another ‘E’ form is required for social insurance. Those administrative documents are provided by the country of origin. Form E 205 shows that the person looking for work is insured in his or her country of origin.
- If you wish to stay in the country for more than three months, you must report to the police station of the area in which you are residing. The residence permit confirms your right to stay in the country as an employed person with EU/EEA nationality. You must have employment or possess sufficient resources for staying in Greece. If those conditions are met, a residence permit is issued for five years and may be renewed.
- Each resident is given a personal tax registration number (AFM) for dealings with the tax authorities and another registration number (AMKA) for the social insurance services.
- Citizens of Member States of the EU/EEA can enter Greece freely and work without a special permit.EU citizens are given a residence permit for the pursuit of paid employment when they present a statement of engagement from an employer. If you are a dependent family member of an employed EU/EEA citizen, you enjoy the same rights as that person.
- Residence permit allowing residence in Greece by an EU/EEA citizen. Competent service: the competent police station.
- In order to have health cover you must have with you the European Health Insurance Card (rather than the older forms E 111 and E 119) from the country of origin.
Kinds of employment
The most common form of employment contract is the full-time employment contract of indefinite duration. There are employment contracts of indefinite duration where the duration is not set but is not inferred from the type and purpose of the contract. Part-time employment is somewhat limited, compared with other EU countries. Seasonal employment is common in tourism areas and in occupations directly connected with tourism.
Fixed-term employment contracts are frequently entered into, when it is explicitly or tacitly agreed that the employment is to be for a certain duration (e.g. six months or one year) or until a specified event occurs, or when the duration of the employment is obvious from the type and nature of the work for which the salaried person is being hired (contracts for seasonal work or for the performance of specific tasks). That is to say, when a specific time at which the work will end is explicitly or tacitly agreed.
Law 2639 sets out the conditions under which certain types of work can be treated as what are known as atypical forms of employment. These forms of employment are themselves protected by legislation, but they must no conceal a contract for dependent work. The conditions are:
a)the obligation for there to be a written contract;
b)lodging of a copy of the employment contract at the competent Labour Inspectorate, and electronic submission of the recruitment documents at the OAED website.
Such forms of work are the provision of services or work for a specified or indefinite period, especially in the case of piecework, teleworking, working from home, etc.
Persons who provide their labour solely or mainly to one employer are not included in the category of persons performing atypical forms of work.
Source: https://ec.europa.eu/eures/main.jsp?catId=8106&acro=living&lang=en&parentId=7746&countryId=GR&living=
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