Government, unions reach agreement

A trade unions' negotiating team and the government have reached an agreement on all unions’ requests and amendments to the pension bill.

Izvor: Tanjug

Saturday, 06.11.2010.

09:55

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A trade unions' negotiating team and the government have reached an agreement on all unions’ requests and amendments to the pension bill. Head of the unions’ negotiating team Miodrag Mijatovic, however, did not want to speak about the details of the agreement because, as he said, nothing has been signed yet. Government, unions reach agreement The unionists were negotiating with Labor and Social Policy Minister Rasim Ljajic for four and a half hours, he said. The agreement protocol should be signed by Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic. The most debatable request of the unions’ was indexation, i.e. that an average net pension cannot drop below 60 percent of an average net wage and beneficiary years of employment. The draft law on pension and disability insurance was withdrawn from parliamentary procedure last month at the unions’ request. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced that they agreed with the government to return the pension bill to parliament without significant changes. Dragan Zarubica of the Alliance of Independent Unions of Serbia (SSSS) told B92 that a compromise had been reached which would fulfill their requests. He explained that raising retirement age for women would not be implemented in next two years, until January 1, 2013. Zarubica also stressed that they agreed that a minimum pension could not fall below 27 percent of an average wage. He says that the most disputable request was beneficiary years of employment but that they managed to reach an agreement on that too. “We found a compromise solution that a solution for beneficiary years of employment needs to be found before the law returns to the parliamentary procedure, and the proposal is to freeze the regulation for two years and to speak about a way to solve this during those two years,” he concluded. (Beta, file)

Government, unions reach agreement

The unionists were negotiating with Labor and Social Policy Minister Rasim Ljajić for four and a half hours, he said.

The agreement protocol should be signed by Prime Minister Mirko Cvetković.

The most debatable request of the unions’ was indexation, i.e. that an average net pension cannot drop below 60 percent of an average net wage and beneficiary years of employment.

The draft law on pension and disability insurance was withdrawn from parliamentary procedure last month at the unions’ request.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has announced that they agreed with the government to return the pension bill to parliament without significant changes.

Dragan Zarubica of the Alliance of Independent Unions of Serbia (SSSS) told B92 that a compromise had been reached which would fulfill their requests.

He explained that raising retirement age for women would not be implemented in next two years, until January 1, 2013.

Zarubica also stressed that they agreed that a minimum pension could not fall below 27 percent of an average wage.

He says that the most disputable request was beneficiary years of employment but that they managed to reach an agreement on that too.

“We found a compromise solution that a solution for beneficiary years of employment needs to be found before the law returns to the parliamentary procedure, and the proposal is to freeze the regulation for two years and to speak about a way to solve this during those two years,” he concluded.

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