The financial crisis occurred in the industrial economies during the decade of 70's, resulted in significant restructurings in the international labour market. The increase of unemployment, as a consequence of the industrial retreat, was smoothed to a certain extend by the new employment posts offered in the service sector. The tertiarisation of employment has exceeded the sector of services and has already expanded in the secondary sector, within the framework of the restructuring of industrial activities, under the pressure of the international competition, as well as the new conditions derived from the globalization of the economies. The paper examines to what extend such tendencies prevail in the structure of employment in Greece. By disengaging the employment posts from the traditional sectors of financial activities and classifying them on the basis of their characteristics (secondary and tertiary nature of employment), it seems that the tertiarisation of employment, which has already affected the Greek labour market from the 70's, has been expanding to date. Moreover the percentage of the tertiary employed people is gradually increasing in the secondary sector of the Greek economy.
