SOCIO-ECONOMIC
A G R E E M E N T
for the year
2011
as a basis for
partnership in resolving essential questions of economic and
social policies andparticipation in implementing the fundamental
aims and priorities of economic policy.
The Participants in the
Agreement hereby undertake to work together to achieve the
following aims in 2011:
1.
creating the necessary
conditions for economic growth by upgrading the business milieu
and increasing the competitiveness of the Serbian economy,
while preserving
existing employment levels and macro-economic
stability;
2.
making the benefits of
economic progress available to all citizens,
while securing
better protection of the rights provided by the law to all
participants in the market;
3.
implementing measures
aimed at increasing economic activity and protecting socially
vulnerable categories of the population,
fully cognizant
of the financial possibilities and capacities determined by the
Budget;
4.
implementing the
reforms which are needed for a successful realisation of the
process of European integrations in
2011, mindful of
the realistic capacities of the economy to implement the
necessary reforms.
The Participants in the
Agreement hereby undertake jointly to implement,
in the shortest
possible term towards the implementation of the agreed tasks,
each in its own
sphere of activity,
the following
measures:
The Government of
the Republic of Serbia
1.
Adoption of concrete
measures to stimulate production by investments in high-priority
sectors worth 35.4
billion dinars,
and granting
over 17.7
billion dinars in
credit funds of the Development Fund,
as well as
4.6 billion
dinars for the creation of new jobs to domestic and foreign
employers;
2.
Supplying the market
with the most important food products
(flour,
milk,
meat,
edible oil,
sugars etc.)
and fuels at
stable prices,
in which process the
Government will intervene in the event of a disruption of the
balance between the market prices of these products and
employees’
earnings;
3.
Providing incentives
for the development of agricultural production by adopting a
comprehensive agrarian plan by the end of May which includes a
system of subsidies aimed at increasing yields and a higher
degree of finalisation of products,
an alteration of
the agrarian structure and investment in the development of
livestock raising, especially
in the country’s
underdeveloped areas;
4.
Support for the export-oriented
sectors of the Serbian economy by establishing a
Development Bank by the
end of the year;
5.
Determining,
no later than
the end of June,
the dynamics of
fulfilling the obligations the state and other public
institutions have to employers for the performance of works and
services rendered,
as well as work on
harmonising legislation in respect of financial discipline;
6.
Defining a proposal for
increasing the amount of the non-taxable
part of earnings,
by the end of June,
with the
approval of the Social-Economic
Council;
7.
Granting precedence to
domestic enterprises in public procurement procedures,
in accordance
with the law;
8.
Covering unpaid
contributions to the Pension and Disability Insurance Fund,
from
2011
Budget funds,
for the
1st January
2004 – 31st
December 2010
period;
8a.
Extending
the validity of health insurance cards to all employees
(who have paid
health insurance contributions for the current periods but have
arrears),
in accordance with the
law;
9.
At the expiry of the
current General Collective Agreement,
negotiations
will be initiated on the contents of a new one;
10.
Implementation of
concluded collective agreements by adopting a decision on an
extended effect; 11.
Increasing the
minimum wage,
without tax and
contributions,
from the current
95.00 dinars
(net)
to
102.00 dinars
(net)
per hour of work
for the June-December
2011 period;
12.
Additional social
protection of population groups which have difficulty finding
work
or are otherwise
vulnerable by implementing a new Law on Social Protection,
for the
development of services of social protection and assisting
employment in 82
of the least developed
municipalities (Group
3 and Group
4 on the
development scale)
in an amount of
400 million
dinars,
and for persons with
disabilities in an amount of three million euros;
13.
Adoption,
by the end of
June,
of a Draft Law on
Revisions of the Law on Contributions for Mandatory Social
Insurance under which women who are entrepreneurs who use
maternity leave but continue performing their business activity
through a supervisor are not forced to pay contributions for
pension and disability
insurance twice;
14.
More effective
protection of the rights of all market participants,
employees and
employers,
and upgrading
inspectorial controls in all sectors of the commercial milieu,
in which process
in the area of labour law,
local labour
inspectorates will organise once a month meetings with trade
unions and employers and resolve outstanding problems;
15.
New laws will be
adopted or existing ones reviewed
(The
Law on Economic Enterprises,
Revisions of the
Law on Payment Operations,
Revisions of the
Law on the Conveyance of Goods in Road Transport and others)
by the
implementation of the Comprehensive Reform of Regulations
(‘Guillotine’),
saving
considerable financial resources for the economy and employers;
16.
The submission of all
drafts of laws and other regulations of importance for the
economic and social status of employees and employees to the
Social-Economic
Council,
before they are
reviewed and adopted by the Government;
17.
Implementation of the
Law on Funding Local Self-Government
in respect of the determination of the maximum amount of
municipal taxes;
Employers
1.
Corporate social
responsibility;
2.
Observance of
collective agreements;
3.
Conclusion of branch
collective agreements in the metal-processing,
chemical,
non-metals
and catering sectors by the end of June,
and finalisation
of negotiations on the remaining collective agreements by the
end of the year;
4.
Active participation in
the process of adopting laws and other regulations which affect
doing business;
5.
Using all available
measures and incentives to protect existing jobs;
6.
Regular payment of
wages and mandatory social insurance contributions;
7.
Formation of social-economic
councils at municipality and city levels by the end of October;
Trade unions
1.
Social responsibility
in the activities of employees;
2.
Active participation in
the process of adopting laws and other regulations which affect
the material and social status of employees;
3.
Active participation in
approving subsidies for enterprises;
4.
Observance of
collective agreements;
5.
Conclusion of branch
collective agreements in the metal-processing,
chemical,
non-metals
and catering sectors by the end of June,
and finalisation
of negotiations on the remaining collective agreements by the
end of the year;
6.
Commitment to resolve
all problems through dialogue without undertaking any form of
social action;
7.
Formation of social-economic
councils at municipality and city levels by the end of October;
The Plan for
Implementing the Socio-Economic
Agreement
The Participants in the
Agreement agree to determine for each measure or task,
whenever it is
deemed necessary,
the following:
1.
concrete activities to
be undertaken to realise goals that have been set
2.
an evaluation and
testing of the effects of all measures adopted once a month at
meetings of the Social-Economic
Council,
at which times the
agreement may be reviewed.
Ljubisav Orbovic,
President of the
CATUS
Branislav Canak,
President of
“Nezavisnost”
Trade Union
Confederation
Mirko Cvetkovic,
Prime Minister
of Serbia
Nebojša
Atanackovic,
President of the
Serbian Association of Employers
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