OSIJEK, March 12 (Hina) - The Croatian government on Friday discussed reports on labour lawsuits which were lodged after the former government failed to abide by collective agreements for employees in public and state-run companies.
At the moment, municipal courts have 15,753 labour lawsuits.
OSIJEK, March 12 (Hina) - The Croatian government on Friday discussed
reports on labour lawsuits which were lodged after the former
government failed to abide by collective agreements for employees in
public and state-run companies. At the moment, municipal courts have
15,753 labour lawsuits.#L#
Justice Minister Vesna Skare Ozbolt said that according to preliminary
data the value of the lawsuits was some two billion kuna (approx. 263
million euros).
The reports on the lawsuits caused by the former government's failure
to pay compensation, overtime, Christmas bonuses, and extra payments
for employees in areas of special state concern, as well child
allowances, was submitted by the head of the government's office for
social partnership, Vitomir Begovic.
Prime Minister Ivo Sanader said his cabinet would like to build its
policy on the basis of social partnership and that the government had
enough strength to solve this issue.
Finance Minister Ivan Suker said this was yet another example of the
former government's omission to meet its financial obligations, and
that if the coalition government had respected all its financial
commitments, the budgetary deficit would have been even higher in the
last and previous years,
Suker said that a statement of International Monetary Fund
representatives that the former government had not met any condition
went unnoticed in the Croatian media. Commenting on media reports, he
refuted some allegations that IMF officials said the current
government would have to revise the budget.
On Friday, the government sent amendments to the law on war veterans
and their rights into parliamentary procedure.
(Hina) ms sb