Employers criticize recovery plan

The quality of Slovakia's recovery and resilience plan was negatively marked by the lack of a wide discussion concurred the biggest Slovak employers belonging to Klub 500 and the Republican Employers Union (RÚZ). Klub 500 executive director Tibor Gregor criticized not only the quality but also inappropriate starting points. According to him, Klub 500 is disappointed, since Slovakia has one of the highest shares of industry in its gross domestic product (GDP) but its position in the recovery plan is minimal. RÚZ secretary Martin Hosták refused to evaluate the recovery plan in more detail for now, as the association is still collecting suggestions from its members. "However, I can already say today that we'll have a lot of comments in the effective state and digitisation component as well as in green Slovakia," said Hosták. He added that the authors of the recovery plan could have avoided the likely large number of comments if they had duly consulted the preparation of the material with the employers' representatives and had not hidden the content prepared.