- A complex and challenging ICT project with benefits for employees, businesses, and the State
- Automatic notification of the ERGANI II system regarding employee working hours
- Employee access to all published work information that concern them, via web and mobile apps
- Use of innovative data analysis and processing techniques, such as Big Data Analytics, Data Mining, and Risk Analysis
The ‘Digital Work Card’ is being implemented by the OTE Group on behalf of the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. This complex and demanding project with benefits for employees, businesses, and the State, creates the framework for transparent and effective inspections by the Labour Inspectorate regarding the observance of working hours, reduces the bureaucratic burden on businesses, and secures insurance system contribution revenues.
The implementation process of the Digital Work Card mechanism is carried out in two stages: It starts with the census of employees and the pre-declaration of working hours by employers, and it is accomplished with the automatic notification of actual working hours. Enterprises are interconnected every day with the Digital Work Card mechanism of the ERGANI II Information System and provide it with real time information regarding the beginning and end of employees’ workday. The interconnection of businesses’ timer systems with this mechanism is achieved through an application programming interface (Web API), while the new Ergani CardScanner app for mobile devices has been developed for new businesses that do not have a timer system. The Digital Work Card in QR Code format is scanned through the app when arriving at and leaving work. Moreover, myErgani app for mobile devices and myErgani web portal (
https://myErgani.gov.gr) provide employees with direct access to the data regarding their work, which employers publish on the ERGANI II Information System.
Despite the tight time-schedule, the OTE Group already completed the first phase of the Digital Work Card project last June. It covered over 120,000 full-time employees at 52 large enterprises in the supermarket and banking sectors. The second phase is underway and includes taking an inventory of the digital organising of working hours out of all enterprises – employers in Greece and for all employees, in order to gradually extend the use of the Digital Work Card to the entire economy. At the same time, an analysis and processing mechanism of all Work Card data is being developed.
The Digital Card mechanism has been developed on 3-tier architecture (database servers, application servers, clients) and uses Web Service technologies to support interconnection with timer systems and mobile applications. Once completed it will provide advanced data analysis and processing, reporting, and risk analysis capabilities.
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The digital work card is a milestone project for the reform of the labour sector in Greece. By utilising our know-how in high-tech projects, we are implementing a mechanism with multiple benefits for employees, businesses, and the State. Through technology, we will continue to create a better world for all.” said the Chief Commercial Officer Business Segment of OTE Group, Mr Grigoris Christopoulos.