COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE WITH A SINGLE JUDGE
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| MONOMELÉS PROTODIKÍO μονομεληζ πρωτοδικείο COURT OF FIRST INSTANCE WITH A SINGLE JUDGE |
One of the three types of first-instance court in the Greek judiciary system: magistrates' courts, courts of first instance with a single judge and courts of first instance with several judges. Private law disputes are dealt with by a given type of court essentially according to the seriousness of the case. The first-instance courts with a single judge deal with cases involving a value of 500,000-1 million drachmas. These also include individual labour disputes, which in fact constitute the most important area of their jurisdiction (there are no special labour courts in Greece). The law (Article 16 of the Code of Civil Procedure) defines individual labour disputes as all disputes which either arise from work as an employee (e.g. claims relating to an employee's pay or payments for overtime exceeding maximum working hours) or are generated by any other reason provided it relates to work as an employee. These same courts are also competent to deal with disputes under collective labour law, i.e. disputes arising from a collective agreement or provisions of similar standing, especially arbitration awards.
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