On October 29, 2021 at the regular session of the Social-Economic Council (SEC) social partners agreed on the need to amend the Article 188 of the Labour Law and sent their request to SEC standing bodies to be reviewed. SEC accepted the initiative of the Confederation of Autonomous Trade Unions of Serbia to amend this article.
CATUS thinks that the current definition of the Article 188 doesn’t provide for adequate protection of trade union representatives and members in their trade union activities, which puts them into unfavourable position upon the termination of their employment contract by the employer.
As the consequence of this insufficiently clear provision, employers violate it by assigning trade union activists to less paid jobs or to a different organizational unit; posting them to another place to work; posting them to work for another employer or declaring redundancies.
In line with the ILO Convention 135 on the protection of company trade union representatives and Recommendation 143, the Article 188 is supposed to protect trade union presidents and members.
CATUS warned that social dialogue in Serbia would remain in crisis until true protection of trade union representatives and members had been obtained. That is why the CATUS has launched this initiative which social partners considered to be of huge importance.
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