BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH

HR-LABOUR-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 4578HINA Zagreb, 3 April 2002JOINT GROUP TO DRAW UP NEW PROPOSALS FOR CHANGES TO LABOUR ACTZAGREB, April 3 (Hina) - The Croatian government and employers accepted at a session of the Economic-Social Council (GSV) on Wednesday a union demand on the establishment of a joint working group to draw up new proposals for changes to the Labour Act, however, the unionists say they have not entirely given up the possibility of strike should the government keep insisting on a drastic reduction of workers' rights. "We are going back to square one, where proposals by all social partners are fully equal," the president of the Croatian Association of Trade Unions (HUS), Zdenko Mucnjak, said after the session which lasted several hours. The working group, which should include five union representatives, three government officials and one employers' representative, should draw up the new proposals in the next two weeks