Due to decades-long destruction of the sector and state’s unfavourable attitude towards employees in cultural institutions, employees were brought to a difficult financial and social position, said the President of the Trade Union of Culture, Dragana Đorđević.
Despite the fact that even 62% of employees have a university degree, average salary in culture amounts to 48, 199RSD, which tells a lot about the state of culture, as well as the state’s attitude towards this group of employees whose salaries are the lowest in the public sector, explained Đorđević.
‘Till 2014 our salaries had been equal to the ones paid to people with elementary and secondary school education. Now, they are 6% lower than the salaries of those colleagues. When in 2014 there was a cut, we were all equally covered by the Decree on Salary Reduction. The following year salaries in the public sector were increased, but only employees in cultural institutions were excluded and we still don’t know the reason why’, she was precise.
At the meeting with colleagues from the public sector and representatives of the Ministry of Finance, we pointed out to this problem and we expect an urgent solution.
Also, we called the attention to the problem of inadequate work environment, as well as increasing self-will and arrogance of directors, which causes employees to experience additional stress and fear of losing their job, concluded Dragana Đorđević.
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