EPSU challenges government over collective bargaining

Croatia

EPSU has written to the Prime Minister and Labour Minister in support of the SDLSN state and local government union and in protest at the government's attack on collective bargaining. The government is planning to withhold the payment of service bonuses to civil servants. This not only fails to comply with the collective agreement (specifically article 45) that the government signed in August 2012 and the agreed procedure for amendments to the collective agreement but it also contravenes Article 10 of Annex II to the Collective Agreement for Civil Servants and Employees with the Trade Unions of Civil Services, in which the government gave a commitment to avoid any reductions in the budget
wages in 2014.
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