Today, Monday 29 June 2026, the new phase of expanding the implementation of the Digital Work Card began.
The following are included in this phase:
- consulting services, advertising and other office activities,
- repair sector,
- warehousing and transport support activities (logistics),
- water and wastewater management and
- games of chance.
The new expansion phase will be implemented on a pilot basis until 15 November 2026, while, from 16 November, its full implementation will begin.
As in the previous expansions of the Digital Work Card, during the pilot period, extensive consultation will take place with the respective sectors, with the aim of optimizing the implementation of the measure and taking into account the particular needs and characteristics of each professional activity.
The Minister of Labour and Social Security, Niki Kerameus, stated:
“The Digital Work Card is demonstrably an important tool for protecting workers and strengthening transparency in the labour market. The Digital Work Card ensures the accurate recording of actual working time, as well as the full payment of workers’ lawful earnings.
The implementation of the measure has led to increases in declared overtime of up to +1200% in specific sectors, while in 2025, 2.7 million more overtime hours were declared compared to 2024.
We protect workers, we protect healthy businesses from unfair competition, we effectively address undeclared and underdeclared work.”
As noted in a relevant announcement, the first phase of the new expansion of the Digital Work Card began to be implemented on a pilot basis from 2 June and will last until 11 October in the following sectors:
- human health activities (hospitals, treatment and diagnostic centers), excluding doctors,
- employment support activities,
- telecommunications,
- individual service sectors, such as hair salons, beauty centers and dry cleaners and
- building and outdoor service activities, mainly cleaning services.
With the two new phases of expansion of the Digital Work Card, an additional 476,000 workers are covered.
Overall, the workers protected by the measure, following the new expansions as well, are estimated to amount to approximately 2,500,000.