Good news for citizens of Serbia, there will be an increase in wages

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Unlike last year, when workers received a higher minimum wage increase than they expected, the new government’s proposal for the minimum wage for next year did not exactly match the union’s expectations. The proposed growth of four to six percent, which would mean an increase in the range of 1,200 to 1,800 dinars to the current low of 30,300 dinars, is unacceptable, and one of the reasons, they say, is the fact that one number at a time Most people accept it.

– until the beginning crown The crisis and its impact on the Serbian economy was handled with a figure of 350,000 workers. Today, the minimum wage accepts at least 100,000 more people, and by the end of the year, that number could be even higher, says Zoran Mihajlović, secretary of the Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Serbia.

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It is true that in recent months, more and more companies send workers on low pay due to lack of work, more frequently in activities such as tourism and restaurants. For all of them, the employer used to reduce the wage to the minimum, which was also the practice in many other sectors.

– That may be one of the reasons for minimizing the number of workers. The fact is, however, that employment has been growing in recent months and that employers, thanks to state support, have mostly moved workers from the gray zone into legal flows. Among them, there were certainly those who received the minimum wage, says a source from Nemanjina 11.

The government came out with the position that the minimum for next year should be four to six percent higher, guided by the fact that the economy was under external pressure and that the world economy is in crisis.

Representatives of the Union of Employers (UPS) said at the same time that they are willing to commit to the issue of the minimum in 2021, but so that this growth does not endanger the business of companies in Serbia.

The honorary president of the Nebojsa Atanackovic Union says that such a proposal from the State fully agrees with what is proposed by the Employers’ Union, taking into account that the real situation of the economy must be considered and, on the other hand, the material situation must be improved from the workers.

– We are satisfied with the attitude of the Ministry of Finance, which has shown stability, it is important that the increase is not above what the economy can handle at this time. The four to six percent range is optimism and it will be nice to be in a position to raise wages that much, Atanackovic said.

Workers, Photo: Belgrade City

The Employers ‘Union states that the union representatives began negotiations with a request to increase the minimum price of labor to 37,000 dinars, which is unacceptable from the employers’ point of view.

The unions had two more proposals: that the new minimum was 35,000 dinars and 34,000, which would be, as they say, their lower limit.

SSSS’s Dusko Vukovic says that the proposal to increase the minimum price of labor from four to six percent is unacceptable to the union, and that they are still in the position that it must follow the price of the minimum consumer basket.

“In this way, the cheap labor policy would continue to be reproduced, and neither the unions nor the workers who receive the minimum wage will be able to be satisfied with such a small increase in the minimum wage,” said Vukovic.