TEMPORARY VARIATION OF JOB CONTENT
| GREECE |
| PRÓSTHETI ERGASÍA πρόσθετη εργασία TEMPORARY VARIATION OF JOB CONTENT |
Term used to refer to the performance of work of a new kind differing from that originally agreed or customarily performed, but within statutory maximum working hours . (The literal meaning is (qualitatively) additional, i.e. supra-contractual, work.) Employees are not obliged to perform this different kind of work, except only subject to the conditions stipulated in Article 659 of the Civil Code, i.e. as a temporary measure in order to cope with exceptional needs and provided that the kind of work required of them is not incompatible with the post they occupy. The performance of a different kind of work entitles the employee to extra pay , which is regulated according to the contractually agreed pay and the particular circumstances. It is, however, possible for it to be agreed, either when the contract of employment is concluded or at a later date, that the employee will perform, during statutory working hours, tasks which are not exclusively confined to a particular kind of work (εργασια μικτηζ επαγγελματικηζ φυσηζ, i.e. work with variable job content ). In such cases, according to case law the statutory rate of pay is that laid down by collective agreement for the employee's main kind of work. It is also lawful to enter into an agreement whereby the employee is employed for a main kind of work but on certain days will perform a different kind of work and be paid accordingly each time.
Please note: the European industrial relations glossaries were compiled between 1991 and 2003 and are not updated. For current material see the European industrial relations dictionary.
Useful? Interesting? Tell us what you think.