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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ATHENS – A phenomenon brought by the COVID-19 pandemic – workers at home operating online – will be continued in Greece even after the health crisis subsides, with the government setting legislation to regulate and limit it.
The bill was sent to Parliament by the Interior Ministry and includes provisions for work at home if the duties allow it to be done without being in an office, and will be voluntary unless public health is a risk, said Kathimerini.
Remote workers will continue to have the same rights and obligations as those in offices although there won't, of course, be supervisors looking over their shoulders to check on their performance.
But the number of those working out of an office can't exceed half the number of employees and their personal data will be protected although it wasn't said how, if they would be paid for using VPN's or other ways to conceal information.
Telework will be allowed on specified days per week and month, and cannot exceed 40 working days per calendar year within a period of three months.
The government will pay for the cost of needed equipment and technical support, including maintenance and upgrades, the report said.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Filipino villager has been nailed to a wooden cross for the 35th time to reenact Jesus Christ’s suffering in a brutal Good Friday tradition he said he would devote to pray for peace in Ukraine, Gaza and the disputed South China Sea.
ATHENS - Disregarding the recommendation of a prosecutor who said there wasn’t enough evidence, an Athens Mixed Jury Court found a 55-year-old man guilty of raping a 12-year-old girl but found her mother innocent of pornography.
ATHENS - A 35-year-old mother from the western city of Patras was found guilty in the murder of her eldest daughter, who was 9 at the time - with trials pending for the deaths of her other two children.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Voters in the pivotal swing state of Wisconsin and three Northeastern states will have a chance to indicate their support or opposition to their parties’ presumptive nominees in presidential primaries Tuesday.