Minister: Salary hike depends on budget

Finance Minister Diana Dragutinović will have the final say regarding teachers’ requests, Education Minister Žarko Obradović.

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Sunday, 13.02.2011.

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Finance Minister Diana Dragutinovic will have the final say regarding teachers’ requests, Education Minister Zarko Obradovic. He stated that everybody in the government wanted the wages to be higher but that it was questionable whether these wishes were realistic. Minister: Salary hike depends on budget The education minister stressed that the end of the teachers’ strike was in sight and that he believed that there was good will on both sides to find an acceptable and possible solution. “We will get the requests from the unions, sit down at the table and talk,” Obradovic explained and added that Dragutinovic would have the final say. The education minister pointed out that five percent of the gross domestic product was appropriated for the education system but that the inflation had done its thing and that everybody felt consequences of the economic crisis. The Education Ministry announced earlier that the minister had invited representatives of the teachers’ unions to a meeting on Monday. The unions that submitted a new draft protocol on Friday, according to which the teachers’ salaries will be increased by 20 percent by the end of the year, were invited to the meeting. The protocol also envisages changes to the law on education system, signing of collective agreement and payment of jubilee awards for 2009, 2010 and 2011. The teachers’ unions have been on strike since January 28. Zarko Obradovic (Tanjug, file)

Minister: Salary hike depends on budget

The education minister stressed that the end of the teachers’ strike was in sight and that he believed that there was good will on both sides to find an acceptable and possible solution.

“We will get the requests from the unions, sit down at the table and talk,” Obradović explained and added that Dragutinović would have the final say.

The education minister pointed out that five percent of the gross domestic product was appropriated for the education system but that the inflation had done its thing and that everybody felt consequences of the economic crisis.

The Education Ministry announced earlier that the minister had invited representatives of the teachers’ unions to a meeting on Monday.

The unions that submitted a new draft protocol on Friday, according to which the teachers’ salaries will be increased by 20 percent by the end of the year, were invited to the meeting.

The protocol also envisages changes to the law on education system, signing of collective agreement and payment of jubilee awards for 2009, 2010 and 2011.

The teachers’ unions have been on strike since January 28.

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