'We are witnessing a certain mode of public debate, in which all the questions on how we reached this point are considered to have already been answered and one is called upon solely to take a stand and to demonstrate which side one supports.'
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Though the government is attempting to portray the bill governing labour relations that the labour and social affairs ministry is about to table in parliament as a patchwork of corrective interventions, it is clear that its political ambition is to remake the institutional framework of labour in Greece.
The government has repeatedly said that the existing framework is outdated or that it articulates “slogans of the past century”.
Two crucial laws governing labour relations were indeed passed into law in the 20th century. The first was passed by the new socialist government in 1982 and replaced a law of the previous New Democracy administration.