ZAGREB, May 4 (Hina) - Unions on Saturday supported the fact that the government had announced it would give up from reducing workers' rights. They said the government made the concessions faced with pressures of announced Labour Day
protests.
ZAGREB, May 4 (Hina) - Unions on Saturday supported the fact that
the government had announced it would give up from reducing
workers' rights. They said the government made the concessions
faced with pressures of announced Labour Day protests. #L#
"After all union activities, it was to be expected that the
government would realise the necessity of compromise," president
of the Alliance of Independent Croatian Unions, Davor Juric, told
Hina.
According to some media, the government is prepared to make partial
concessions and give up from its suggestion that small-company
owners with less than 20 employees can fire workers without any
explanations.
The unions are satisfied with the concession, but are still
threatening with strikes if the government does not give up from
reducing redundancy pay and dismissal notices, and if it forwards
into parliament the draft amendments to the Labour Act without
prior agreement with unions.
Unions can make threats, but compromise must be made in such an
important issue, the head of the government's Office for Social
Partnership, Vitomir Begovic, told Hina.
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