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Belgrade: It is estimated that in Serbia, more than 55,000 households annually hire workers for housework on a temporary or occasional basis.
Source: Tanjug
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It is also estimated that some 10,000 workers, mostly women, have been performing these jobs for years without being registered and without having work experience.
NALED’s analysis showed that in this, but also some other areas, it would be useful to apply an electronic seasonal worker reporting system that has taken root in agriculture and has yielded good results. In the year and a half since this system was introduced in agriculture, the number of registered seasonal workers has multiplied by more than 10, from 3,500 to about 42,500 workers, which has practically halved the number of those who they worked illegally in this sector.
With some adjustments, the electronic system of registration of seasonal workers in agriculture could be extended to other activities, especially in the home and auxiliary care of children, the elderly, pets, cleaning and maintenance, food delivery, construction and the like. businesses, say NALED representatives.
Of the total number of employees in Serbia, one in five people work illegally and, in addition to agriculture, most of them are in the tourism and catering sector (15.1 percent) and construction (11.3 percent), while the rest of the people work in domestic and auxiliary jobs. no contract and no right to pension insurance and protection against work injuries for each day you spend on the job.
Jelena Bojović, head of NALED’s regulatory reform team, told Tanjug that as an encouragement for those employers or people who hire workers in this way, especially for housework or childcare, certain vouchers, various discounts, could be introduced. and stimulation. The coupon system says it exists in Hungary and it has proven to be good.
It points out that when it comes to housework, many, mainly women, have been doing these chores for twenty years without having a day’s work experience, are unregistered and have no affiliation other than income.
“It is estimated that around 55,000 households in the country hire home help and that some 10,000 workers do this type of work, and that is why we are trying to find a way to be registered, have health and social insurance and have the employer pay taxes. for them, “says Bojovic.
According to him, NALED is preparing materials and analysis and is ready to make proposals as soon as a new government is formed.
The Ministry of Labor says that the employment of people who perform auxiliary work at home for several families for a month will be regulated as seasonal workers in agriculture in certain activities, according to the Draft Law of Reforms to the Law of Simplified Employment in Temporary Jobs in certain activities. The law is drawn up by a working group of the competent Ministry and, according to the draft of certain activities, in the event of an occupational accident, people who perform seasonal jobs would have the right to health insurance and contributions would be paid for each working day pension and disability insurance.
According to Minister Zoran Djordjevic, the Law on Simplified Employment in Seasonal Jobs in Certain Activities covers only seasonal jobs in agriculture, so the idea is to apply this employment model to simplified employment and application for insurance aid to home. These jobs are currently regulated by the Labor Law, which stipulates that an indefinite or fixed-term employment contract may be signed with the domestic support staff, with full or incomplete time, with all the rights prescribed by the Labor Law.
NALED representatives also point out that around 18,000 workers work informally in the tourism sector and about 50,000 in physical jobs in construction. In addition, between 35,000 and 55,000 informal collectors are engaged in the collection of secondary raw materials.
Jelena Bojović also explains that an employee registration system like the one applied in agriculture is much easier for employers because practically everything is done from the office with a single click through the mobile application, that is, the site . After a month, they receive decisions from the Tax Administration on how much they should pay to hire seasonal workers. In addition, none of the benefits that workers already have, such as social assistance and the like, are revoked during that time.
An analysis by NALED and the German Development Cooperation Organization on the possibilities of expanding the simplified employment system of workers in temporary and temporary jobs, which currently operates only in agriculture, showed that the most common reasons why workers Employers do not consider reporting them are the high costs, complicated procedure and insufficiently flexible form of hiring.
During 820,000 days of participation in agriculture, taxes and contributions in the amount of 250 million dinars were paid, and this system was used by 311 employers.
Informal employment is one of the key generators of the shadow economy, because for every 100 dinars spinning in the gray zone, 62 dinars come from undeclared wages and 38 dinars from undeclared earnings, the analysis showed. The problem is compounded by the fact that in Serbia, one third of informally hired people work for less than three months, every fifth work for up to six months, and only 16% of them are hired for up to one year. About 126,000 of them work solely on the basis of a verbal agreement.
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