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On the occasion of World Day for Decent Work, Oct. 7, the Center for Democracy Foundation NGO has said that many workers in Serbia are working in conditions of precarious employment, low wages and risk of poverty, insufficient protection of labor rights and workplace safety and health.
"In Serbia, the minimum wage, which should be the exception and a temporary measure that has a protective purpose - has become the rule, and its amount does not cover the minimum existential and social needs of employees and their families. The amount of the minimum monthly salary in 2022 is below the relative poverty threshold for a family of three, which is 39,600 dinars," the NGO says in a release.
It adds that "the nominal rise of average salaries in the first six months of this year was 13.5 percent, whereas in real terms it was 3.5 percent."
The Foundation says that the national legal framework needs to be harmonized with the standards of the European Union and the International Labor Organization, that new forms of labor need to be regulated, and that strategic documents regulating issues in the field of labor, employment and social policy need to be enacted.
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