ZAGREB, Jan 3 (Hina) - Talks with unions of primary and high schools employees have ended and the government will not talk to them anymore. If a strike occurs, the days spent in strike will not be paid, Vice-Premier Goran Granic told
reporters on Friday.
ZAGREB, Jan 3 (Hina) - Talks with unions of primary and high schools
employees have ended and the government will not talk to them
anymore. If a strike occurs, the days spent in strike will not be
paid, Vice-Premier Goran Granic told reporters on Friday. #L#
The Croatian Teachers' Union announced a five-day strike for
January 13, after the government refused to use the additional 200
million kuna for increasing salaries for all school employees
instead for salaries of solely teachers.
The salaries of employees who are not part of the school staff, have
been fully levelled with the salaries of civil servants and public
employees, Granic said, warning that corrections to salaries in one
segment would inevitably lead to the same process in others.
For all employees in public and state services to be encompassed,
the government would need half a billion kuna, even 700 million, and
not the mentioned 80 million kuna, Granic said.
He reiterated the government's stance that there was no need for
correcting the salaries of public employees and civil servants,
with the exception of teachers whose salaries have been increased.
The Education and Sports Ministry shares the government's point of
view that the announced strike in primary schools was unnecessary,
and the given reasons unfounded, the ministry's spokeswoman,
Danijela Grizelj, said.
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