ZAGREB, Jan 18 (Hina) - The Independent Croatian Trade Unions (NHS) federation will ask the government to give priority to civil servants, together with INA employees, in the sale of at least 15 percent of shares of INA in the second
phase of the privatisation of the Croatian oil company, scheduled for this May.
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ZAGREB, Jan 18 (Hina) - The Independent Croatian Trade Unions (NHS)
federation will ask the government to give priority to civil servants,
together with INA employees, in the sale of at least 15 percent of
shares of INA in the second phase of the privatisation of the Croatian
oil company, scheduled for this May.#L#
Civil servants and other employees in the state sector have not been
able to take part in privatisation as they work in institutions which
cannot be privatised. Therefore the government should make it possible
for them to buy shares, under favourable conditions, of other
state-run companies during their privatisation, the NHS leader,
Kresimir Sever, told a news conference in Zagreb on Sunday.
Sever urges the government to increase to 25 percent the number of INA
shares to be offered for sale under more favourable conditions to
citizens so as to ensure that as many shares as possible remains in
the possession of Croatian nationals.
The leader of the Civil Servants' Union, Ivica Ihas, told the
conference that about 120,000 out of a total of 240,000 employees in
the state sector would be interested in the purchase of INA shares.
The head of the INA employees' union, Bozo Miklus, and the chairman of
small-shareholders' association, Dubravko Surina, welcomed this
proposal. They, however, warned that the government had not yet
defined conditions under which INA workers could buy the shares,
although they had asked on several occasions the previous government
to do it.
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