The Tsipras government in Greece legislated a 60-hour working week for doctors.

Omissions

• Greek doctors' excessive working hours and Greece's breach of the EU Working Time Directive were already documented before the Tsipras government (2016 ECJ/CJEU rulings and BBC reporting), so a 60-hour regime for doctors is not exclusively a Tsipras-era creation.
• No source retrieved in this round explicitly states the '60 hours per week' figure for doctors; the precise 2017 legal instrument and the exact statutory figure could not be re-confirmed within the available search budget, and the verification rests on the previously identified 2017-based evidence.
• The claim concerns a historical period (the Tsipras government, 2015–2019). The most recent relevant data found (Reuters, October 2025) concerns a private-sector working-hours reform and does not bear on hospital doctors' statutory weekly hours.
• The speaker (KKE, NI) frames the 60-hour week as a strategy shared by New Democracy and Syriza; the figure is a maximum including on-call duties rather than a standard working week, and EU law caps average weekly working time at 48 hours.

Sources

• SecondaryBBC News — 'Greek doctors' long hours 'break EU law', ECJ decides'Greek doctors 'may have to work more than 24 consecutive hours and even up to 32 hours'. Average weekly working time cannot exceed 48 hours. All workers are entitled to minimum rest of 11 consecutive hours in each 24-hour period.
• Secondarygovwatch.gr — 'CJEU condemns Greece for violation of EU labor legislation'Greece, in violation of EU law, allowed doctors to work in hospitals for 24 hours or more continuously, without rest periods.
• SecondaryReuters — 'Greece adopts law extending working hours despite protests'ATHENS, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Greece's parliament approved a bill on Thursday allowing private sector employers to extend working hours despite protests from workers already struggling from a cost-of-living crisis. The bill, which allows employers to enforce 13-hour work days, up from the current eight hours... Greece already has among the longest working weeks in Europe at around 40 hours, EU data shows.