K. Hatzidakis: From July 1, the first application of the Digital Work Card

As of July 1, the Digital Work Card in banks and supermarkets with more than 250 employees will be implemented, which, in the first phase, concerns more than 120,000 employees in these two sectors, with the aim of gradually expanding to all companies and of workers in the country.

According to the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, this is a tool that guarantees respect for the employee’s working hours and overtime and, at the same time, supports healthy competition between companies, but also for an emblematic reform that empowers the employee.

This is because, with its implementation, all the information about working hours will be declared electronically and will be available at the touch of a button to employees, employers and auditing authorities.

According to the Ministry of Labor, the Digital Labor Card secures the working hours and wages of employees, as two new safety valves are introduced. Specifically, the declaration of commencement of work, which will be made by the employees themselves, will be automatically transmitted to the “ERGANI” System and the auditor will know, before the audit, how many and which employees must be in the workplace.

In this way, as he points out, the operation of the audit work of the Ministry of Labor, through the Labor Inspection Body, which is upgraded to an Independent Authority, becomes more efficient, since the data of the PS. “INSTRUMENTS II” are put in the service of control mechanisms, the interests of the employees and the conditions of equal competition for the companies are ensured, phenomena of declared and undeclared work and unpaid overtime are prevented, while the revenues of the insurance system and the implementation of the legislation are ensured.

It is noted that the Digital Work Card covers all forms of employment (eg full-time, part-time, internship, apprenticeship, etc.), working hours (fixed, variable, shifts, overtime), while electronically records all forms of leave taken by employees.

K. Hatzidakis: Gradual expansion of the Digital Work Card to all companies

At the same time, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs assures that the Digital Work Card will be gradually extended to all companies and employees, without exception and, from October 1 to November 30, 2022, an inventory of all working hours will be carried out. of the country’s businesses. The P.S. “INSTRUMENTS II” will be the basis for the expansion of the Digital Work Card gradually to all companies, regardless of sector of activity and size.

Speaking to the Athenian-Macedonian News Agency, the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Kostis Hatzidakis, states:

“We are proceeding, from July 1, according to the schedule, which we had announced, to the first application of the Digital Work Card in all banks and supermarkets that employ more than 250 employees. Already, the digital applications, through which the Card, are available to businesses and employees “.

As Mr. Hatzidakis emphasizes, with the Digital Work Card, the 8 hours declared as 4 hours and the unpaid overtime end. “It is a modern tool that guarantees respect for working hours and overtime, protects healthy competition, facilitates controls, secures the revenues of the insurance system,” said the Minister of Labor, adding that it is the government’s commitment to extend the measure to all companies. operating in the country, regardless of size and industry. According to him, the next step will be taken by security companies, insurance companies and industry, while in the summer of 2023 it will be implemented in the tourism and catering sectors.

Instructions for employees and companies

According to the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, the new digital applications that support the implementation of the Digital Work Card are available to employees and businesses, in view of the first implementation of the Card from July 1 for all banks and supermarkets in the country. with more than 250 employees.

As announced, this is the myErgani mobile app for employees, which has been upgraded to support the operation of the Digital Work Card and the Ergani CardScanner application for companies that do not already have a timing system, which “reads” during start and end of the work the Digital Cards of the employees and automatically transmits in real time the information to the PS. “INSTRUMENTS II”. The mechanism of “reading” the Digital Card is similar to the procedure followed for the “scanning” of vaccination or disease certificates during the pandemic period. The CardScanner application has already been made available to companies for trial use, while next Monday 27 June a new version will be available that will be connected to the productive PS. “INSTRUMENTS”.

From July 1, therefore, employees in banks and supermarkets (and gradually all employees in the country), upon entering the workplace, will “scan” the Ergani CardScanner, (ie the application available for companies), the personal QR code displayed by the myErgani mobile app, in order to indicate the start and end of the work. Thus, with the Digital Work Card, the working hours and overtime of the employees will be automatically recorded.

Employees will also be able, through the upgraded myErgani mobile app, to see on their mobile device in the form of a diary the program indicated by the employer, as well as the actual employment they provided.

More specifically, as already announced by the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, the new regime for employees and companies of the first phase of implementation (banks and supermarkets), which will be gradually extended to all employees and companies in the country, includes the following:

A. Employees

Employees should download the myErgani mobile app, which is available for free on Google Play platforms (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gr.gov) on their mobile phones. myergani) and App Store (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/myergani/id1624483175), through the official accounts of the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs.

The application provides the employees of the first phase (banks and supermarkets) with access to the individual Digital Work Card (in the form of QR Code), which will be used daily during the arrival / departure to record the real working time. Specifically, at the beginning and end of the work, the employee will display the QR code to be read by the respective Ergani CardScanner mobile app available to employers (a procedure similar to the one followed for the control of vaccination certificates). After the successful reading of the Work Card, ie the QR code, the employee will see on the screen a confirmation message with the details of the Work Card statement that will be submitted automatically and in real time to the PS. “INSTRUMENTS”.

Through the myErgani mobile app, employees will also see (for each employer separately, if there is more than one) in the form of a diary the scheduling of working time and the actual employment data per day, based on the arrival / departure information submitted by the mechanism of the Work Card.

The Work Diary, which includes the Work Program and Real Employment, is also immediately available to the employee, in addition to the digital application and through the web portal for informing employees: https://myErgani.gov.gr.

The myErgani mobile app provides a wealth of useful information to all employees and not just to those working in companies that adopt the Digital Work Card. Through the application, the employee, after being identified using the taxisnet codes, gains access to the user card, where the details of himself and the employer or employers he employs are recorded. Employers are grouped into two categories: active and senior. Whether you are employed by one or more employers at the same time, the application allows you to monitor the current employment relationship and its key features, such as weekly working hours. By choosing one of the employers, detailed details of the employer and the employment relationship are displayed.

At the same time, the employee can be informed in real time about the changes that take place in the PS. “INSTRUMENTS” and concern him, through promotional notifications (push notifications). With the aim of transparency and complete information of the employee, the application provides access to all the statements submitted by the employer to the PS. “INSTRUMENTS” (eg start / end of employment, changes / overtime / overtime, leave, etc.). The same applies to the payments from the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs in the context of the various actions of financial support to the affected, vulnerable social groups, etc. Also, there is a special section for the promotion of important announcements by the administrators of PS. . “ERGANI” or the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs.

Finally, it is pointed out that the employees of the companies that are part of the mechanism of the Work Card, in each phase of application, have the opportunity to view, as well as to print the individual Digital Work Card (QR Code).

B. Businesses

With the start of the first phase of implementation of the Work Card from 1/7/2022, the companies of the first phase of implementation have the obligation to notify the PS. “INSTRUMENTS” -daily and direct- in real time, the data of the real working time (start and end events of the work) for each employee who works with a physical presence in each day in the company.

These companies have the possibility of direct interconnection of the timekeeping system, if they have one, with the new mechanism of the Work Card in the PS. “ERGANI”, while, if this is not possible, the Ministry of Labor has the Ergani CardScanner application.

Ergani CardScanner application supports mobile devices (smartphone and tablet) with Android OS or iOS operating system. It is necessary to use a device with a camera and a seamless internet connection, via WiFi and / or 4G mobile network, for the immediate submission of the arrival / departure events of the employee. It is proposed the possibility of using both networks (WiFi and 4G), in order to ensure the timely submission of the declaration in case of technical failure in the network.

The companies have the possibility to complete the identification process with the OPS IKA / EFKA codes of the company or with Branch codes that they have created in the PS. “ERGANI” especially for the mechanism of submitting work Card declarations. Employers have access to the Work Card declarations that are automatically submitted by the CardScanner application for each reading of the Employee Digital Card, as the data is stored and available to the employer, through the website of the PS. “ΕΡΓΑΝΗ” (eservices.yeka.gr) “.

Source: AMPE