BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 3524

HR-SALARIES-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 3524 BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 3524HINA Zagreb 4 February 2000SABOR ENDORSES REDUCTION OF SALARIES OF FORMER STATE OFFICIALSZAGREB, Feb 4 (Hina) - The House of Representatives of the Croatian National Sabor on Friday unanimously endorsed a bill on changes to the Law on the Obligations and Rights of State Officials. The session was opened by Sabor Vice-President Mato Arlovic and the bill was presented by Deputy Prime Minister Zeljka Antunovic. According to the current law, former state officials have to right to receive salaries for a period of one year after leaving their offices. The amount of those salaries is the same as the last salary they received while in office. Given that the salaries of state officials will be reduced, this could result in cases where a former minister would have a higher salary than an incumbent one. This is why the Government has proposed that the salaries of former state officials be reduced