Guide · 2 October 2026
What you are owed when you leave a job in Greece
What am I owed when I leave a job?
However a job ends, you get the bonus for your days, the leave you did not take and its allowance. If you are dismissed after your first year, you also get severance pay. If you resign, you do not.
The end of a job comes with a final settlement: your employer pays everything it owes you up to your last day. What it includes depends on how the job ends.
In every case
You get your pay for the days of the month, your share of the Christmas or Easter bonus, and the leave you did not take. If you have not had your holiday allowance, you get that too.
If you are dismissed
After the first 12 months, a dismissal brings severance pay: from 2 to 12 salaries. If your employer gave you written notice months before, it pays half. A dismissal is valid only in writing, with a declaration on ERGANI II, the labour register, and with the payment of the severance.
If you resign
Resigning brings no severance pay and no unemployment benefit. Your employer declares it on ERGANI II, and you sign it too.
Afterwards
After a dismissal or the end of a fixed-term contract, apply to DYPA, the public employment service, for unemployment benefit within 60 days. The “Unemployment benefit” tool works out the amount and how long it lasts.