ZAGREB, Sept 17 (Hina) - Association of Croatian Independent Unions (SSSH) is next week to stage a large protest rally in order to force the government to at last begin negotiations on the unions' requests.
ZAGREB, Sept 17 (Hina) - Association of Croatian Independent Unions
(SSSH) is next week to stage a large protest rally in order to
force the government to at last begin negotiations on the unions'
requests. #L#
The SSSH will reiterate its requests to the government to
annul the decision on freezing wages, to increase the non-taxable
part of income from 700 to 1,100 kunas and the terminal wage to be
freed from taxes, to introduce seven tax categories with the lowest
tax rate of 10 percent.
They also requested the policy of employment to be changed,
that is, that the government urgently stop the wave of dismissals
from jobs, the SSSH said at Tuesday's news conference.
SSSH president Davor Juric expressed his view that instead of
the current 260,000 people, there would be 300,000 people
registered at the employment office by the end of the year. Some
100,000 employees did not receive wages or they received them
irregularly, Juric said.
According to the latest statistics, only 650,000 persons were
employed in production which had plummeted to 56.4 percent of the
production realized in 1990.
Juric said the statement that this year's increase in
production had amounted to seven percent was untrue, because,
according to unions' information, this year's production was at
last year's level and could have risen only one percent.
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