Labour

BELGRADE - Serbia will not impose sanctionson Russia when it takes over the OSCE chairmanship next year, Serbia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreigjn Minister Ivica Dacic has told the Blic daily.

The OSCE focuses on European security and cooperation and does not impose sanctions, he noted.

SMEDEREVO - Labour Minister Aleksandar Vulin said on Wednesday the lawyer protest held in Belgrade on Tuesday was a political rally that sought to change the current government and he called on the lawyers to show that they were capable of reaching an agreement and to start working.

Minister of Labour, Family, Social Protection and the Elderly, Rovana Plumb, vice president of the Social Democratic Party (PSD), told a press conference on Friday in Alba Iulia (north-west of Bucharest) that the minimum salary will amount to 1,200 lei (about 285 euros) in 2016.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced on Wednesday that the Romanian Post has already given out 2.6 million vouchers by which the deprived persons will get foodstuffs aid under an European programme.

Victor Ponta's centre-left government in Romania says it has enough funds to raise pensions by 5 per cent rise, starting in January.

The minimum gross monthly salary is to increase from 900 lei to to 975 lei (221 euro) at the same time.

BELGRADE - The 2014 international Fire and Rescue, Occupational Safety and Health Exhibition, also known as 112 Expo, opened in Belgrade on Tuesday with the message that investment in safety is not an expenditure, but something that could save lives.

BELGRADE - The expert group in charge of labour legislations held its first meeting on Thursday, during which they agreed that the preparation of the legislations in the sectors of labour and relations between social partners should be completed within a year.

BELGRADE - The members of the Social Economic Council of Serbia have not come to an agreement on the minimum price of labour for next year, Labour Minister Aleksandar Vulin said on Sunday.

"It means that the government will decide on it at one of its upcoming meetings," he told reporters after a meeting of the council.

Prime Minister David Cameron on Sept. 9 announced a last-minute trip to Scotland to campaign against independence as supporters of the United Kingdom rallied to counter a surge in separatist support ahead of next week's referendum.
      

Prime Minister David Cameron on Sept. 9 announced a last-minute trip to Scotland to campaign against independence as supporters of the United Kingdom rallied to counter a surge in separatist support ahead of next week's referendum.