Industrial relations

Parliament adopts amendments to labor legislation

BELGRADE -- Deputies in the Serbian assembly on Friday adopted two bills amending and modifying the Labor Law and the Law on Pension and Disability Insurance (PIO).

A total of 190 MPs voted in favor of the amendments to the Labor Law, 21 were against, and four did not vote.

BELGRADE - Serbian trade unions held a protest in downtown Belgrade on Thursday against the bill of amendments to the labour law and the law on pension and disability insurance, which the government filed to the parliament for adoption on urgent procedure.

BELGRADE – Serbia’s Labor Minister Aleksandar Vulin said Tuesday that parts of the proposed amendments to the Labor Law were increasing workers’ rights, facilitating doing business and creating conditions for the inflow of investment.

BELGRADE – The draft amendments to the Serbian Labour Law, which will be presented before the members of the Serbian parliament on Tuesday and whose adoption is being opposed to by representative trade unions, provide that employees’ right to seniority-based financial compensation of 0.4 percent per year of service can only be exercised with their current employer.

BELGRADE - The Serbian parliament will discuss at its Tuesday session the bill of amendments to the labour law which the government adopted on Saturday despite the pressures and protests of trade 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.

BELGRADE - The decision on amendments to the labour law will have to be taken by the government and the parliament because trade unions and employers are on opposite positions, Serbian Minister of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs Aleksandar Vulin said on Monday.

BELGRADE - The proposed amendments to the labour law announced by Labour Minister Aleksandar Vulin are unacceptable to the Confederation of Autonomous Trade Unions of Serbia (SSSS), SSSS President Ljubisav Orbovic has said.

BELGRADE - Serbia's trade unions and employers failed to reach an agreement on the amount of the minimum wage at Monday’s meeting of the working group on amendments to the Labor Law, Vice President of the Confederation of Autonomous Trade Unions of Serbia (SSSS) Zoran Mihajlovic told Tanjug.

BELGRADE – Serbia’s working group in charge of amendments to the Labor Law met Thursday to discuss provisions relating to duration of fixed term employment.

The working group will discuss other provisions the following week, Director of the Serbian Association of Employers Dragoljub Rajic told Tanjug.