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PRESIDENT DIMOVSKI DELIVERED SOME OF THE DEMANDS OF SSM

Today in SSM we initiated this meeting with our social partner - the Government of RNM with one goal: to preserve the jobs and return the fired workers, our colleagues back at work.

Therefore we request from the Government of RNM:

 - direct financial assistance to workers and companies in the most vulnerable and most affected sectors.

- amendment to the Labor Law as soon as possible

- fixed-term employment contracts only in exceptional objective conditions and lasting up to 1 year

- 38 hours working week,

- maternity leave of 12 months,

- the right to salary adjustment to be governed by Law and Collective Agreements

- full realization of the right to annual leave

- Saturday and Sunday to be days of weekly rest

- improving healthy and safe working conditions in companies.

- Respecting the conventions on freedom of trade union organizing and functioning

- The employer should be obliged to start negotiations within 30 days from the submitted draft proposal of the Collective Agreement at the level of the employer by the trade union.

- Improving collective bargaining (signing the GCA for the private and public sector) and social dialogue at all levels because our rights cannot be decided without us.

- Introduction of several retirement conditions in the Law on Pension and Disability Insurance

We propose, in addition to the existing retirement conditions additional conditions to be introduced:

1. Age pension – years of service

• 35 years of service - woman - regardless of age

• 40 years of service - a man - regardless of age

2. Age pension - by age or length of service - by activities/ sectors

The workers in the country are employed in different sectors and perform different working tasks. Therefore, it is necessary the law to provide several retirement conditions for different categories of workers (construction, textile, miners, administration etc). If different retirement conditions are determined, workers shall have the right to choose, it will depend only on the will of the employee under what conditions she/he will want to retire. and shall not be applied mandatory.

3. Early Age pension

It is proposed to introduce the right to early retirement workers who would be eligible after the age of 60, with a minimum of 15 years of service.

Beneficiaries of early retirement pensions may be workers who work but cannot continue to work for certain reasons (health, work, and cannot be declared disabled due to bankruptcy or liquidation) or are unemployed and meet the requirement - minimum 15 years of work experience. This type of pension would be realized only at the will and request of the employee.

This retirement requirement in almost all European Union countries is known as a general retirement condition and it is met at the age of 60.

4. Incomplete Age pension

• to enable workers to pay the pension and disability insurance contribution themselves if they have not met the requirement of at least 15 years of service,

• the right to self-payment of the contribution, to be applied to workers who lack up to 3 years of work experience from the minimum 15, and meet the age requirement (62, i.e. 64 years).

5. Introduction of beneficial years of service for construction workers as well as other activities where work tasks take place in particularly difficult working conditions that are detrimental to the life and health of workers.

These are part of the demands of CCM that will be discussed at today's meeting at the highest level, with the Prime Minister and the Ministries of the Government and at the same time I am optimistic that we will find mutual solutions, because our demands are real and sustained, and are for the good of both the workers and employers.

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