7.10.2011 – The Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Macedonia (KSS) joined trade unions from all continents by marking the World's Decent Work Day with appropriate events. This day has, for over a decade now, been the day when unions from all over the world jointly send across a message for decent and dignified work for all people, work in compliance with international standards. This is ever more important because the Republic of Macedonia is a signing party to the Memorandum for implementation of the national Decant Work Program 2010-2013, in which decent work is identified as the essential element for improvement of the social sphere in the Republic of Macedonia. , more...
06.10.2011 – The Confederation of Free Trade Unions of Macedonia (KSS) held today a press conference related to the reached agreement at the latest session of the Economic and Social Council for determining the minimal wage at the national level. This agreement is accomplishment of KSS's commitment of 6 years ago, when KSS launched a petition for collecting signatures as support to the adoption of Minimum wage law, when KSS managed to collect 45,000 signatures. more...
On 6th and 7th September the 11th Southeastern European Energy Round Table was held in Hotel Biser, Struga. This event was hosted by the Independent trade union of Energy, Mining and Industry (SSERI) and the Independent Union of Workers in Energy (SSESM). The event was organized by the European Public Services Federation (EPSU), in partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation. The round table was chaired by Mr. Jan-Willem Goudriaan, Deputy General Secretary by EPSU. Participants represented the energy trade unions from SEE region: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bugaria, Croatia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.more...
At yesterday's ninth session of the Economic and Social, the trade unions and employers gave a green light to the Draft-law on minimum wage, which will immediately enter Government procedure. The defined percentage of the minimum wage is 39,6% of the average wage from the previous year, by which the minimum wage will follow the dynamics of wages in the country, which, in essence, means that salaries will increase alongside with the increase of the average. "The minimum wage amount does not include extras, meaning that if the employee works overtime, in shifts or on duty, more...
On September 1st 2011 the sixth Session of the Economic and Social Council was held, but first one chaired by the new Minister of Labor and Social Policy Spiro Ristevski. According to the Agenda, the social partners first discussed the draft-text of the Law on European Works Councils for which it was unanimously agreed that needs to be adopted as soon as possible. It was also agreed that the draft-text be considered again by each of the social partners internally and afterwards to discuss any comments and remarks at the next session. more...
Less than a week since the new Government has been constituted, on August 1st 2011 trade union representatives held their first meeting with the new Minister of Labor and Social Policy Spiro Ristovski, formerly Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Policy in the previous government composition. In the presence of all national trade union centers, the two social partners confirmed the priority tasks and activities for the coming period. more...| European Law, Social Dimension and Accession to the EU |
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