State and public admin employees to get a 4.8% salary hike

State and public admin employees to get a 4.8% salary hike

People working for the state and public administration, with the exception of teachers, are set to see salary hikes of 4.8 percent as of January 2018, according to Trade Union Confederation (KOZ) vice-president Monika Uhlerová. On Monday the first round of talks on the 2018 Higher-Level Collective Agreement (KZVS) took place. The Government should provide the salary hikes by March 30, 2018. No salary hikes for teachers have been included in the collective agreement. "We're certainly not encouraging teachers to take to the streets, but if they decide to opt to apply pressure, they can certainly count on KOZ's support," Uhlerová added.

According to Education and Science Employees Trade Union's head Pavel Ondek, no solidarity was demonstrated by the other trade unions during the collective bargaining. "The trade union bosses have used their mandate to agree to salary hikes of 4.8 percent. They agreed to the increases despite the fact that the teachers' trade union didn't agree with the fact that teachers and university lecturers would see no salary hikes in 2018," said Ondek. His organisation announced in August that it wouldn't sign a memo on social reconciliation with the Government that was supposed to guarantee a combined salary rise of 26.25 percent by 2020 on condition that educators would forego their right to organise strikes until 2020. The unionists stated that they didn't want to give up their constitutional right to negotiate better working and salary conditions within annual collective bargaining.


Anca Dragu, Photo: TASR

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