Tourist Guides to hold sit-down protest in Liston on Sunday 21 February
protest
19 Feb 2021
/ 13:00
CORFU. As part of the nationwide protest on International Tourist Guide Day Corfu guides will be holding a peaceful sit-down protest in Liston at 11:30 on Sunday 21 February.
On Sunday 21 February - International Tourist Guide Day - Corfu tourist guides will be holding a protest in Liston, observing all the necessary social distancing and other measures. Politicians from all the parties and local authorities have been invited.
The Panhellenic Federation of Tourist Guides has issued the following statement:
The Panhellenic Federation of Tourist Guides, representing all the guides in Greece, is protesting against the government's neglect of the sector! We will be taking action throughout the country to let our problems be known - from Athens and Thessaloniki to Crete, Corfu and Rhodes.
Our action will be symbolic in nature and will involve just a few people in order to adhere to the pandemic safety measures.
The Minister for Employment Mr. Hadjidakis has announced new support measures due to the pandemic that has hit the country. But for the guides the months of November and December 2020 have been written off and they will receive financial assistance for January and February 2021 only.
This means, quite simply, that the disastrous year 2020, when the guides didn't work, ends with assistance of €1,868 for one and a half years. This is lower even than the minimum wage when in other European countries guides have been given from 7,000 to 19,000 Euros.
- Professional tourist guides have been supported only with the special insurance stamps for September and October 2020 (in other words, 50 stamps for the whole year).
We will be the only sector in the whole of Greece which won't be eligible for unemployment benefit at the end of 2021. Due to special regulations guides receive two months unemployment benefit with 100 stamps and three months with 200 stamps.
What we are asking for from the Ministers of Employment and Finance:
Retrospective payment of the special financial assistance and insurance stamps for May - August and November - December 2020 in order to have all the necessary stamps for 2020 and be eligible for three months unemployment benefit when we return to normality.
NO MORE LIES - OUR PATIENCE HAS COME TO AN END!
- We demand the special financial assistance and insurance stamps for May - August and November - December 2020.
- We demand that the special financial assistance continues until at least April 2021 and after that depending on developments with the pandemic.
- We ask MPs from all the parties and the media to support our just demands.
The Panhellenic Federation of Tourist Guides has issued the following statement:
The Panhellenic Federation of Tourist Guides, representing all the guides in Greece, is protesting against the government's neglect of the sector! We will be taking action throughout the country to let our problems be known - from Athens and Thessaloniki to Crete, Corfu and Rhodes.
Our action will be symbolic in nature and will involve just a few people in order to adhere to the pandemic safety measures.
The Minister for Employment Mr. Hadjidakis has announced new support measures due to the pandemic that has hit the country. But for the guides the months of November and December 2020 have been written off and they will receive financial assistance for January and February 2021 only.
This means, quite simply, that the disastrous year 2020, when the guides didn't work, ends with assistance of €1,868 for one and a half years. This is lower even than the minimum wage when in other European countries guides have been given from 7,000 to 19,000 Euros.
- Professional tourist guides have been supported only with the special insurance stamps for September and October 2020 (in other words, 50 stamps for the whole year).
We will be the only sector in the whole of Greece which won't be eligible for unemployment benefit at the end of 2021. Due to special regulations guides receive two months unemployment benefit with 100 stamps and three months with 200 stamps.
What we are asking for from the Ministers of Employment and Finance:
Retrospective payment of the special financial assistance and insurance stamps for May - August and November - December 2020 in order to have all the necessary stamps for 2020 and be eligible for three months unemployment benefit when we return to normality.
NO MORE LIES - OUR PATIENCE HAS COME TO AN END!
- We demand the special financial assistance and insurance stamps for May - August and November - December 2020.
- We demand that the special financial assistance continues until at least April 2021 and after that depending on developments with the pandemic.
- We ask MPs from all the parties and the media to support our just demands.
