“For a few years there have been common debates during which employers and unions have by no means been in a position to agree on the difficulty of elevating the minimal wage. Then the federal government determined within the ultimate, usually till the tip of the yr,” commented Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Marian Jurečka (KDU-ČSL) on the change.
In response to him, it was very troublesome for the enterprise sector to calculate the prices, when it usually solely came upon in December what the minimal wage ought to be.
On the identical time, the European directive requires the Czech Republic to extend the minimal wage.
Abolition of assured wages
As well as, the authorised commonplace additionally abolishes assured wage ranges in non-public corporations, that are a form of minimal wages for particular person professions. They are going to stay solely within the public and state sectors, however even there their quantity can be lowered from eight to 4.
This was one of many largest targets of criticism. The Senate Constitutional and Authorized Committee proposed that it additionally apply to workers in corporations. He justified the adjustment by the commerce unions’ worry that the abolition of the assured wage within the non-public sector will result in a discount of wages in corporations to the extent of minimal wages. However that didn’t go the Senate plenary session.
“I think about it very inconsistent that the salaries of workers within the public sector take pleasure in better safety than the salaries of workers within the non-public sector, who, then again, are fairly often in a considerably weaker place in negotiations,” criticized Senator Adéla Šípová (Pirates).
In response to her, it could additionally trigger a fantastic imbalance in that individuals who work with the identical competences in the identical place within the non-public sector is not going to have the identical authorized safety as the identical staff within the public sector.
“Assured wages have been launched in a state of affairs the place some workers formally acquired solely the minimal wage and the remaining was paid in hand. This follow was corrected by the introduction of the institute of assured wages. If we cancel them once more within the non-public sector, we’ll return to this follow,” she added.
In response to Jurečka, nonetheless, the cancellation of assured wages is not going to hurt workers within the non-public sector. “We’ll considerably assist individuals by growing the minimal wage at a big price. If there’s an argument that the proposal may negatively have an effect on individuals with low incomes, then I say that isn’t true. That may be true if we had 38 % of the minimal wage in comparison with the typical,” he stated, including that the rise within the minimal wage would additionally push up different incomes.
Twenty-four hour shifts
The modification can be meant to allow the introduction of shifts of as much as 24 hours for workers in medical services with steady operation, for instance within the emergency providers. For such lengthy shifts, they’d obtain a statutory complement. Paramedics can now serve twenty-four hours a day. Nevertheless, based on the laws adopted final yr, a shift can final not more than 12 hours, presumably adopted by time beyond regulation work.
The modification nonetheless must be signed by the president, so it may come into impact this yr, except the supply that may enable workers to set their very own working hours in shifts after settlement with the employer. There, validity is predicted subsequent yr.
The minimal wage will rise sharply, medical doctors will serve longer, deputies determined
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