In recent years, the digital strategy in the labour sector has focused on digitizing the physical archives and converting the insurance records of beneficiaries from the former Funds into electronic form within e EFKA, thereby expediting the processing of pension applications and enhancing interoperability with other information systems and registries of the public administration. At the same time, the expanded rollout of the digital work card (ERGANI II) across additional economic sectors reduces the administrative burden on businesses, strengthens employees’ labour rights, and curbs undeclared or under declared work. OPEKA is also proceeding with the unification and digitization of all its allowances and benefits, creating a single portal through which all social protection programs and related entitlements will be accessible, while modernizing its software services. Furthermore, the Integrated Information System for Occupational Health & Safety (HERIDANOS) will support the competent authorities in performing their duties and will facilitate occupational safety technicians and physicians both in their initial training and in their ongoing professional development and information updates, thereby continually improving worker protection and the competitiveness of the labour market.
Ensuring job security during periods of reduced economic activity or unemployment
A shortage of talent, which leads to a gap in specialized vocational education and training.
The need to develop a unified, modern administrative framework that identifies the population’s real needs, implements policies of social solidarity, and at the same time aims for more efficient and transparent management of the resources allocated to protect vulnerable social groups
Renewal of legislation concerning support for workers’ decent living conditions and their safety
Goal 1
Improvement of employment conditions: Enhanced worker protection and structural interventions in the labour market
Fortification of the workforce, strengthening of organizational structures with upgraded procedures, modernization of the Labour Inspectorate’s control system, etc
Goal 2
New Governance Model and Digital Transformation of DYPA
Implementation of a new governance framework combined with the digital transformation of the Public Employment Service (DYPA).
Goal 3
Digital Modernization of Labour Market and Social Security Systems
Comprehensive digital overhaul of all labour‑market platforms and the social security infrastructure.
Goal 4
Unemployment Reduction through skill enhancement and targeted active labour policies
Reform of labour‑market policies, rollout of active integration programmes for the unemployed, introduction of a new lifelong‑learning strategy and a national skills‑upgrading system, modernization of DYPA and LAEK vocational‑training schemes, and expansion of DYPA’s apprenticeship programme.
