Trade unions withdraw from labor law talks
Two umbrella organizations gathering trade unions in Serbia have announced they would not participate in negotiations on draft amendments to the new Labor Law.
Tuesday, 13.05.2014.
16:22
Trade unions withdraw from labor law talks
The trade unions find it unacceptable that the ministry expanded the list of areas of labor legislation that unions need to harmonize with the authorities and employers."We are unpleasantly surprised by the fact that the working version of the Draft Law on Amendments and Supplements to the Law on Labor that was submitted to the unions expanded the topics that the working group for drafting the law worked, and which was formed at the initiative of then First Deputy Prime Minister of Serbia and current Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić," said the joint statement.
It also pointed out that the group worked for three months to prepare a draft, but was "changed at the initiative of Minister of Labor Aleksandar Vulin."
Serbia's representative trade unions seek to negotiate five most important issues that should be regulated by a new labor law - temporary employment, dismissals by employers, severance pay, extended applicability of collective bargaining, and the minimum wage.
"These are the areas that can promote employment and kick-start job creation, and adding new ones is absurd and totally unnecessary," the unions believe.
The Working Group on Amendments to the Law on Labor met on Tuesday to discuss the five items that are in dispute in this document, on which unions and employers have been trying for some time to reconcile their views, and which will be the topic of the upcoming meetings - the next is scheduled for Wednesday.
Vice President of the SSSS Zoran Mihajlović said that the unions were not happy because the draft version of the law saw a "return" of everything that they previously disagreed with.
This refers primarily to reduction of salaries due to absence from work or sick leave, that would mean cuts of 10 to 15 percent.
"This is unacceptable, and could have the effect of producing an increasing number of people on the minimum wage," said Mihajlović.
UGS leader Branislav Čanak spoke for B92 on Labor Day, May 1, to say that if a new labor law could be harmonized very quickly if there were no new provisions - but that otherwise, its adoption could be postponed for the end of the year.
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