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Transportation / Storage 49 - Land transport and transport via pipelines 49.3 - Other passenger land transport 49.31 - Scheduled passenger transport by road
655 jobs Number of planned job creations
Announcement Date
22 August 2020
Employment effect (start)
Foreseen end date
Description
On 22 August 2020, the government signed a decision (FEK 61) allowing Athens Public Transport Organization (O.A.S.A.) to hire 655 personnel with fast-track procedures.
Recruitment concerns bus drivers and technicians and will take place in the transport companies O.SY. S.A. (providing buses and trolley bus services) and STA.SY. S.A.(metro lines and trams) in the capital region.
The aim is to have more frequent routes and avoid overcrowding at the time of the pandemic, according to a Transport Ministry official.
Eurofound (2020), O.SY and STA.SY, Business expansion in Greece, factsheet number 102064, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://apps.eurofound.europa.eu/restructuring-events/detail/102064.