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Layoffs are expected this fall and Serbia needs to implement new measures

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Ranka Savic, president of the Association of Free and Independent Trade Unions of Serbia, said that the Government of Serbia was late with measures against the coronavirus epidemic, and that the situation in the economy is very difficult. She asked the Government of Serbia to prescribe new measures to help the economy and workers, because “an extremely bad socio-economic scenario awaits us in September.”
She assessed that the Government of Serbia was late with the measures against the coronavirus, stating that the latest figures on the dead and infected speak for themselves.
“The basic request we sent to the Government of Serbia is to urgently pass a binding legal act on the ways of organizing business in the conditions of a coronavirus pandemic, but with rigorous sanctions. Today, we have the Law on Protection and Safety at Work, and it does not recognize a pandemic. This does not last for a short time, and there was too much time for the government to pass an act, to help the workers, and to clarify how to behave in these conditions, but also to clarify the situation to employers,” she stated.
She adds that this act would prescribe the duties of employers, and as a reason for the failure to pass so far, she cites the fact that employers are already in big trouble because of the corona.
“That is why we asked for subsidies for the purchase of masks. Give help to those who can’t get those masks. During this period, ASNS also provides huge funds for the purchase of masks. “Did I have a state that is thinking, or that celebrated the victory over Covid 19 a month ago,” she notes and adds that the state did not respond to the demands of this union.
According to her, the latest introduction of additional measures by the Government of Serbia is a kind of response to the demands of the trade unions.
“Certainly, these measures are the answer, and that is not only because of the pressure of ASNS, but also of other institutions and citizens of Serbia. Before the Government of Serbia, we saw in which direction this was going. Our health care system is overloaded and this period that is going on for us will not be good at all,” she said.
She says that she and the union are aware of the fact that we must not close again, as well as that “we have to work and receive salaries”.
“The economy has not recovered. The situation was incomparably better at the beginning of the first wave, and now the economy is exhausted. Industrial production fell by 10 percent, manufacturing by over 10 percent. If there is no second phase of economic assistance, I think we will have an economic and social scenario in September that will be extremely bad. A large number of dismissals will be waiting for us in the fall,” Savic predicts.
She also warned that some banks have started raising installments on loans.
“If this continues, the executors will have their hands full from October,” she pointed out.

Savic estimated that the distribution of 100 euros has greatly emptied the budget of the Government of Serbia and that she doubts that there can be new help to the citizens, as well as to the economy.
She estimated that the most endangered will be the hotel industry, tourism, catering and traffic, and that a large number of “STR” shops have already been closed in Belgrade, as well as that craftsmen will have a hard time overcoming the upcoming crisis, Nova reports.

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