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| Time to splash the cash, says Fico |
| Bratislava, 09.05.2017 |
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| Pay hikes will come out of our pockets, employers complain.
Slovakia is doing well economically and financially, and citizens must also feel this in the form of improved standards of living. This was the main message Prime Minister Robert Fico conveyed in speeches in Nitra and Žilina to mark Workers’ Day on May 1.
To achieve this aim, he set out plans to increase the minimum wage and supplementary payments for night, weekend and holiday work. He also wants to ban what has been dubbed “social dumping”, i.e. hiring foreign workers at low wages.
Employers responded that they would end up paying the bill for Fico’s proposed measures, while economic analysts warned that the proposed changes would mean the impact of any future economic crisis could be much more painful.
The minister for labour, social affairs and family, Ján Richter (Smer), has already been instructed to prepare an amendment to the Labour Code to put the proposed changes into effect.
“I think that these measures will be passed without any problems,” Fico said, as quoted by the SITA newswire.
Fico, who is also the leader of Smer, the largest party in the governing coalition, introduced this latest package of measures without any prior consultation with his coalition partners – the Slovak National Party (SNS) and Most-Híd.
Each of these parties has put forward its own proposals to ensure that Slovaks enjoy a share of the country’s growing prosperity.
The SNS proposes to make so-called 13th salaries (an annual bonus normally equivalent to one month’s salary) compulsory, while Most-Híd is tabling an alternative package of measures that focus on income tax cuts.
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