The Member of Parliament P.E.. Kozani Mr.. Kalliopi Vetta co-signed, together with 43 more MPs of SYRIZA - PS. parliamentary question to the Ministers of Labor and Health on the subject: «Immediate need to implement legislation on safety and health of workers in the workplace».
The question refers to the recent very serious accidents at work in Piraeus (COSCO PC) and Kilkis (ALUMIL) which urgently raised questions about working conditions in the workplace and the need to comply with and enforce existing legislation on occupational safety and health.
As indicated, the ever-increasing intensification of labor, the use of unskilled personnel for special tasks, the lack of education and the provision of personal protective equipment, the lack of consultation between employers and employees, the almost abolition of SEPE, the abolition of collective agreements and the new labor law 4808/2021 of the current Government reinforce the miserable working conditions, the complete exhaustion of workers, the impunity and arbitrariness of employers and consequently the increase in accidents at work.
Although in our country there is a legal framework for Health and Safety in the workplace (N. 3850/2010 and a number of regulatory acts), however the political choice of the Government is its non-strict implementation and the support of the employers and not the employees, despite the obligation of our country to implement tripartite cooperation (employees, employers and the government), as required by the functioning of the EU, in order to improve working conditions and prevent accidents.
End, are included among others, the following questions to the competent Ministers:
What support measures does the Labor Inspectorate intend to take?; They intend to strengthen the institution of the Occupational Physician, and if so, how to ensure the effective operation of the institution;
Intend to intensify controls to verify the implementation of the law on compliance with the measures of health and safety of workers; They intend to impose similar sanctions on employers who do not comply with this legislation;
What measures does the Government intend to take to improve workplace safety standards?, as the frequency and type of accidents prove that the current ones are not enough;
They intend to upgrade the specialty of occupational medicine and to suspend the relevant provision of the PNP of the former Minister of Labor and. Vroutsi (ΦΕΚ Α΄ 68/20-03-2020), which was ratified by N. 4683/20, for the replacement of occupational specialists by doctors of other specialties, unrelated to the subject and even in the midst of a pandemic;
