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Subject: [Leica] Leica finances - for Jayanand
From: douglas.sharp at gmx.de (Douglas Sharp)
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2011 21:55:08 +0200
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Hi Jayanand,

that's very probably true - particularly Greek civil 
servants are paid all sorts of exotic extras.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/may/07/greek-debt-crisis-jobs

Best
Douglas

Here's an interesting story about one Greek island, too.


/On the Greek island of Zakynthos over 700 of the 35000 
population are blind. Those who are blind recieve a 
blind persons pension.

This is a very high percentage (2%).
In Ireland 0,4% of the population are blind.

The Greek Department of Health investigated the cause 
of the high rate of blindness on the island. Their 
findings were very interesting.

They have discovered that most of the sufferers have 
been blind since birth. However, nobody seemed to 
notice these people were blind while they were going to 
school.
Some of the "blind" were found to be working as :

Taxi Drivers,
Steeplejacks


Another thing that came to light was the fact that a 
high percentage of the "blind" were diagnosed as being 
blind shortly before elections.

The pensions for the "blind" people in Zakynthos costs 
the Greek government EUR 3 million per year.

Furthermore retirement pensions had been paid to 231 
people who had been dead for years. The government are 
now going to investigate if pensioners over the age of 
100 are still alive.

This seems to be a big problem in Greece that people 
are milking the system - the number of Greeks getting a 
disability is twice the EU average.
/

On 20.08.2011 17:54, Jayanand Govindaraj wrote:
> Douglas,
> I just read a startling report today which basically says that salaries (on
> a cost to government basis) are still 25% higher in Greece than Germany, 
> for
> equivalent positions in the public sector. I could not believe it. Is it
> true, do you think?
> Cheers
> Jayanand
>
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 9:14 PM, Douglas Sharp<douglas.sharp at gmx.de>  
> wrote:
>
>> Leica's biggest cost factor is labour - as it is for every company in
>> Germany - the ancillary costs (often called the second wage) are almost as
>> high as the salaries/wages and include a 50% contribution to health
>> insurance premiums, social security, accident insurance, disability
>> insurance and, and, and...
>>
>> So somebody earning a monthly wage of say 2000 euros gross is costing the
>> company between 2500 and 4000 euros a month depending on age, marital
>> status, children, seniority, health insurance premium.
>>
>> Douglas
>>
>>
>>
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