With the cancellation proceedings to run in parallel with the conciliation proceedings, Labour Minister Mirando Mrsic, who held a news conference on this topic on Monday, stopped short of saying when exactly the Basic Collective Agreement might be terminated for the public-sector workers.
The minister recalled that the government's negotiating team had reached agreement with four public-sector trade unions that represent health, culture and social welfare workers.
However, another four unions of primary school teachers, secondary school teachers, university lecturers and scholars, and nurses rejected the agreement and also turned down a proposal for arbitration, which is why the collective agreement is likely to be cancelled at the government's session later this week, according to unofficial reports.
The minister told the news conference that the government did not want to cancel the collective agreement today, and that it would like to conciliate with those unions.
The conciliation proceedings are also a part of the cancellation proceedings. There is yet another opportunity to sit at the table and try reach agreement, Mrsic said adding that there was no time-frame for that.
We want one more chance for conciliation and the government will wait for the outcome of the conciliation, Mrsic said.
He said he was confident that the basic collective bargaining agreement between the government and trade unions of 60,000 civil servants working in the defence sector, the judiciary, the police and other office clerks would be signed on 2 August, as scheduled.