Coalition plans to overhaul public sector pay system

The coalition would adjust the pay system to the specifics of individual professions and peg performance bonuses to efficiency based on a set of indicators for individual professions, according to information obtained by the STA.

Commenting the plans for the STA, trade unionists said they considered them rather vague, giving way to different interpretations as to how this would be done.

Both Jakob Počivavšek, the president of the PERGAM Confederation of Trade Unions, and Branimir Štrukelj, the head of the Confederation of Public Sector Trade Unions, wondered whether this would be done within the uniform pay system or whether certain professions would be excluded from it.

"I find it hard to believe that some professions would be excluded from the pay system and the others would still be part of it," Počivavšek said.

He said the trade unions advocated a...