Tax avoidance by the state?

There are some of our fellow citizens who, for reasons of economic survival, join the National Guard. According to the law, "their daily compensation for participating in missions is fixed at 16 euros" - if they have any missions.

These missions are considered by the Ministry of Defense to be "volunteer work," which is strictly prohibited in the private sector. But the state makes the rules and breaks them, and that is hard to change. The reason that this job was described as "volunteering" is that the government did not want to create new "armies" of contract staff, whom a minister would later make permanent staff. Hence the 16 euros is characterized as compensation and not as a daily wage.

But what Defense Minister Nikos Dendias considers "voluntary work," Labor and Social Security Minister Adonis Georgiadis calls "normal" work. As we are officially informed about...