After having been increased to 40 weekly hours in the context of the austerity measures, the maximum weekly working hours for civil servants has been reduced back to the original 35 hours, as of the beginning of July 2016, in a recent amendment to the General Legal Act on employment under public functions. Since general employment law working hours are set at 40 hours/week, unions are claiming that the reduction to the 35 hour threshold should be extended to other employees, who also work for public entities, but are not benefiting from the civil servant legal regime.
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