Aleksandar Vulin

BELGRADE - The Regional Conference of Trade Unions of the Financial Sector of South-East Europe (SEE) adopted a declaration supporting colleagues from Serbia who are opposing the adoption of the proposed labor law without a public debate.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Labour Minister Aleksandar Vulin has said the amendments to the labour law will make it easier to hire new people, and not lay off the existing employees.

"This is a reform law that has to be adopted, and it will be impossible to put our economy back on its feet without it.

BELGRADE - Labour Minister Aleksandar Vulin has said after a meeting with Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and leaders of trade unions that he cannot guarantee an agreement on the labour law will be achieved to everyone's satisfaction, but that they are closer to a solution.

Serbian prime minister starts visit to Russia

BELGRADE -- Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić will on Monday in Moscow meet with Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev as part of his two-day working visit.

This has been announced on the website of the Russian government.

BRATUNAC – A central manifestation to commemorate 22 years since a crime against Serbs in the Middle Drina valley in Republika Srpska (RS), the Serb entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH), where Muslim forces killed 3,267 Serb civilians and soldiers during a four-year war, was held in the RS town of Bratunac Saturday.

JADOVNO - Serbian Minister of Labour, Employment, Veteran Care and Social Issues Aleksandar Vulin as the representative of the Serbian government attended the commemoration held in former prison camp Jadovno near Gospic in Croatia, on Sunday.

In 1941, around 40,000 prisoners were killed in Jadovno, most of them Serbs, as well as Jews and the Roma.

Collective agreement labor law's "point of contention"

BELGRADE -- Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić says "the extended effect of collective agreement remained a point of contention between the government and trade unions."

Speaking on Thursday, he added he was ready to meet "with the unions."

The Serbian Labour Ministry has called for the Social-Economic Council, which is made up of representatives of employers, unions and government, to meet next week in order to discuss the draft labour law, a ministry source told BIRN. 

This will come instead of a public discussion on the long-awaited legislation before it can be sent for adoption by parliament in July.

Trade unions "demand meeting with PM"

BELGRADE -- Trade unions have called on PM Aleksandar Vučić and Labor Minister Aleksandar Vulin "to clarify what the new law on labor will bring."

They also want clarification on "which version will be debated in parliament."

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Labor, Employment, Veteran and Social Policy Aleksandar Vulin said Wednesday that trade unions' representatives were well aware which labor bill version was ready to be enacted, as the proposal could be found on the website of the ministry and also trade unions’ websites.