The Government has reached an agreement, around 11.000 administrative workers will receive a wage raise of almost 40 percent by 2028, Macedonian Prime Minister Hristijan Mickoski said at a press conference Sunday after a meeting with the representative unions of public administration workers.
This is a broader package that will include, along with employees in the courts and public prosecutor’s offices, around 11 000 workers. With this, the Government, as the largest employer, is basically reaching an agreement with its colleagues, and that agreement will remain in force until 2028. We have previously signed similar agreements with employees in education, healthcare, and other institutions, says the PM.
Mickoski announced that the agreement reached will be operationalized through individual agreements, and at the same time reiterated that the general collective agreement has expired.
As the Government, we are ready to sit down within this period up to 2028, though I expect it will happen sooner, together with the two representative unions SSM and KSS, and negotiate a new General Collective Agreement. This agreement would serve as the single instrument on the basis of which wages will be paid. At the same time, it would be a tool available both to workers and to the Government. We believe such a win-win arrangement, where both sides benefit, and above all, the citizens and the country, can be achieved through mature cooperation and growing trust. I think that, slowly but surely, we are building this trust with certain structures within the unions. I won’t say with all, but with some. Unfortunately, there are structures that remain tightly bound to the political embrace of certain parties, noted PM Mickoski.
