Unions slam minister as he announces passing of new laws

BELGRADE Economy Minister Sasa Radulovic has said he expects the laws on receivership and privatization to be adopted by the end of January. At the same time, he expects the draft labor act to be completed, Beta reported. Unions slam minister as he announces passing of new laws "We expect the laws on receivership and privatization to be adopted by the end of January - the beginning of privatization depends on that. Political parties must completely lose influence in companies in restructuring. We have an aggressive plan for all of this to be completed by the end of 2014," Radulovic told Beta in Vienna, where he is participating in a Euromoney conference. The minister said that there was "great resistance to changes, that the opponents of the new laws are all those who live off the grotesque system, i.e. all interest groups which stand to lose because of these legal amendments." Meanwhile in Belgrade, the presidency of the Alliance of Independent Unions of Serbia (SSSS) demanded that PM Ivica Dacic urgently dismiss the minister. Vice-president of this representative union Zoran Mihajlovic also the Independence and SSSS trade unions of metal workers will hold a major protest on January. 24, and that the gathering will go ahead "even if the draft laws on privatization and receivership are withdrawn from parliamentary procedure." "What we demand explicitly is the dismissal of Mr. Radulovic, who is the greatest evil and the biggest liar in Serbia, of all those who have come, and of all those tycoons. The biggest tycoon is still sitting in the ministry, the biggest tycoon is still sitting in the government and I do not know how much longer we can take it," Mihajlovic said on Thursday, and added: "Radulovic has made a nice fortune by managing receivership procedures in various companies and is now doing what he has been told by foreign investors, i.e. the American Chamber of Commerce, of which he is an exponent." Sasa Radulovic (Tanjug, file) Beta

Unions slam minister as he announces passing of new laws

"We expect the laws on receivership and privatization to be adopted by the end of January - the beginning of privatization depends on that. Political parties must completely lose influence in companies in restructuring. We have an aggressive plan for all of this to be completed by the end of 2014," Radulović told Beta in Vienna, where he is participating in a Euromoney conference.

The minister said that there was "great resistance to changes, that the opponents of the new laws are all those who live off the grotesque system, i.e. all interest groups which stand to lose because of these legal amendments."

Meanwhile in Belgrade, the presidency of the Alliance of Independent Unions of Serbia (SSSS) demanded that PM Ivica Dačić urgently dismiss the minister.

Vice-president of this representative union Zoran Mihajlović also the Independence and SSSS trade unions of metal workers will hold a major protest on January. 24, and that the gathering will go ahead "even if the draft laws on privatization and receivership are withdrawn from parliamentary procedure."

"What we demand explicitly is the dismissal of Mr. Radulović, who is the greatest evil and the biggest liar in Serbia, of all those who have come, and of all those tycoons. The biggest tycoon is still sitting in the ministry, the biggest tycoon is still sitting in the government and I do not know how much longer we can take it," Mihajlović said on Thursday, and added:

"Radulović has made a nice fortune by managing receivership procedures in various companies and is now doing what he has been told by foreign investors, i.e. the American Chamber of Commerce, of which he is an exponent."