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Negotiations on the Living Wage and Average Consumer Basket

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In the morning show on TV Nova, Bosiljka Jovanović, Vice-President of the Confederation of Autonomous Trade Unions of Serbia (CATUS), said that the minimum wage and average wage were at a very low level. That is why the CATUS would insist on the negotiations on the living wage. She also added that the trade union would demand the term average consumer basket to be inserted into the Labour Law.

„It is paradoxical that we in Serbia are the only ones who use the term minimum consumer basket, defined by the Labour law and this needs to change, “she has pointed out.
Jovanović reminded that for the past hundred days our government had been silent regarding any actions or response to our demands.
As she is also the President of the Trade Union of Workers in Pre-School Institutions of Serbia, she pointed out to the fact that the employees in kindergartens experienced burn out, were overburdened and didn’t have adequate working conditions.
„There were too many children in the facilities, not enough investments in the working tools and no proper nutrition, insufficient number of new state kindergartens were being built… “
She stressed that the Decree by which only a part of employees got the co-efficient increase was discriminatory.
„We demand equal treatment for all. In order to achieve it, we organized the signing of a petition. In a short period, it was signed by more than 20,000 people. We shall also turn to the Ombudsman, “concluded Jovanović.

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