Article 19 of Law 4808/2021 allows specific sanctions to be imposed in the event of violation of the relevant obligations regarding violence and harassment, which are made more severe in the event of a repeat offence and are partially lifted in the event of compliance. This ensures the Labour Inspectorate has the appropriate robust powers to address such conduct, and can also issue directly enforceable orders if there is an imminent risk. A distinction is made between the treatment of violations of the preventive obligations contained in Articles 5–11 of Law 4808/2021, where a fine is imposed on the employer for each violation under the general provisions for Health and Safety at Work Inspections, and violations of Articles 4, 12, and 13 of the same Law, which concern a specific incident of violence and harassment committed either by the employer or by an employee and the employer fails to take the suitable and appropriate measures provided in Article 12(2) of Law 4808/2021.

From 1.9.2022 onwards, the procedure set out in Chapter B of Part I of Ministerial Decision No 80016/2022 (Government Gazette Series II, Issue 4629/01-09-2022), entitled ‘Classification of violations and determination of fines imposed by the Labour Inspectorate for violations of: (a) the ordinary labour law, (b) violence and harassment at work, (c) the digital work-card system, and (d) directly demonstrable violations of labour legislation and of health and safety at work rules’, issued pursuant to the authorising provisions in Article 22(3) of Law 4808/2021, apply to how violations are classified and how the fines imposed by the Labour Inspectorate for incidents of violence and harassment at work are determined.