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Amazing stories of labor inspectionsInspectors, who are now better equipped, come up against strange and funny situations Labor inspectors in Greece report situations that beat even the most imaginative screenwriter of crime series, a result of those striving to avoid the checks and significant fines for the circumvention of labor legislation. This is due to entrepreneurs who have got used to not paying, thereby distorting the competition and surviving at the expense of the healthy businesses that operate in the same industry.Immigrants hidden in coffins, underage workers in chicken coops, uninsured people piled into refrigerators with temperatures below zero, threats, swearing and attempts to deceive make up the “normal” workday of inspectors in the Labor Inspection Squad, without this meaning that all those inspected are fraudsters, extortionists and illegal.There are thousands of legitimate employers who abide by the labor law and stoically accept scrutiny, but those who break the law usually try, either by word or deed, to get away with it.
Crooked House: Owners of wonky pub ordered to rebuildThe owners of The Crooked House pub have been ordered to rebuild "Britain's wonkiest inn" after it was destroyed last year in a suspected arson attack.South Staffordshire Council has served an enforcement notice on the owners of the pub in Himley, near Dudley.The council said it had engaged with the owners since the demolition but had reached a point where formal action was considered necessary.It requires the building to be built back to what it was prior to the fire.
In Cyprus Halloumi war, an ex-pilot champions the old waysOn a cold winter evening in a car park in the Cypriot capital Nicosia, queues are already forming before former airline pilot Pantelis Panteli arrives in a small van to sell his produce.After being made redundant following the closure of Cyprus Airways in 2013, Panteli decided to try his hand at cheese-making. He hasn’t looked back.Now the newcomer has become an unlikely bastion of an old tradition amid a bitter legal battle about the ingredients of Cyprus’s prized Halloumi. Should it be made from cow’s milk – which now forms the bulk of exports and has a mellower taste – or from tarter goat and ewe milk, which some purists swear by?Panteli makes Halloumi exclusively from ewe’s milk – even though some dairy farmers on the Mediterranean island say that method is not viable.
Camilla leads royal family at memorial service for King Constantine of GreeceThe Prince of Wales has missed a memorial service for his godfather the late King Constantine of Greece because of a personal matter.Kensington Palace would not elaborate further but said the Princess of Wales, who is recovering from abdominal surgery, continues to be doing well.Queen Camilla led the royal family at the St George’s Chapel service, attended by a large number of Constantine’s family and foreign royalty, as the King is continuing to receive treatment for cancer.Among those in the congregation were the disgraced Duke of York who with ex-wife Sarah, Duchess of York led the main contingent of British royals as they walked downhill from Windsor Castle to the church.
Olive oil price up 50% in EU, 67% in GreeceGreece saw the second-highest increase in the price of olive oil since January 2023, with its 67 percent increase far above the European Union average of 50 percent, data from the EU’s statistics arm showed on Tuesday.Portugal saw the highest price spike in the bloc, with a nearly 70 percent increase, followed by Greece and Spain (63 percent). The three countries together produce most of Europe’s olive oil.According to the National Bank of Greece, olive oil accounts for 9% of the total agricultural production value in Greece compared with 1% in Europe, and a higher percentage of GDP in Greece (0.4 percent) than in Spain or Italy.
Heart attacks, strokes the main killers of GreeksCardiac and cerebrovascular diseases causing strokes, along with neoplasms and the coronavirus, were the major killers in Greece in 2021, while violent deaths also skyrocketed according to the Hellenic Statistical Authority.
Syphilis and gonorrhea on the increaseCases of syphilis increased by over 113 percent and of gonorrhea by over 120 percent between 2020 and 2022, data from the Hellenic National Public Health Organization (EODY) has shown.In 2022, there were 862 syphilis diagnoses compared with 404 in 2020. Gonorrhea diagnoses went up from 164 to 362 in the same period.The vast majority (93 percent) of syphilis cases were detected in men, who were mostly aged mainly between 25 and 64. In most of the male cases (72 percent), the mode of transmission involved same-sex sexual contact.Men were also mostly (96 percent) affected in the gonorrhea detections, with most falling in the 25-44-year age bracket. The mode of transmission was divided between men sexual contact between men (47 percent) and between men and women (46 percent).
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