ZAGREB, May 17 (Hina) - Public services which have not yet signed branch collective agreements with the government could do so by mid-June, unions said on Friday.
ZAGREB, May 17 (Hina) - Public services which have not yet signed
branch collective agreements with the government could do so by
mid-June, unions said on Friday. #L#
The government has showed readiness to negotiate and we can expect
the agreements to be signed by June 15, the president of the
Alliance of Public Services Unions, Dalimir Kuba, told Hina after a
meeting with Vice-Premier Goran Granic.
Kuba said that the meeting also focused on the application of the
Basic Collective Agreement for the public sector which was signed
at the end of last year.
The government pledged to respect all rights of workers, and we will
begin negotiations about the government's obligation to pay
additional health insurance for employees, as well as negotiations
on bases for salaries, cash grants, gifts for children and
Christmas bonuses, Kuba said.
He added that unionists would later on decide about the
government's suggestion to pay taxes and contributions for
transport expenses covered with additional salary funds.
Kuba said Granic had announced that the government would at the next
session discuss changes to coefficients of health and social
welfare employees. Before the government session, the unions of the
two services will try to harmonise their coefficients with the rest
of the public services'.
The next meeting of the public sector unions' negotiation committee
with Granic will take place in ten days.
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