New Slovak Prime Minister, Robert Fico, in the government's statement released this month mentioned changes to the Labour Code and to the tax system and system of social benefits. The government aims at fulfilling the Maastricht criteria and will strive for introducing the Euro currency already in 2009. In order to achieve this, the PM gave a stop sign to privatization process of strategic businesses, promised a new "millionaire's tax" – progressive taxation which would raise taxes on people in the highest income brackets, and planned to adopt an amendment to the Labour Code which should strengthen the position of employees. (Ref. 06811)
Amendment to the labour code. The PM announced that his government will made mode precise the legal provision about dependent work in order to fight against false self employed situations. The government also promises to increase the protection of employees “from unjustified dismissals; protection of employees in part-time jobs; to eliminate the cases of misusing the fixed-term employment occurring through chaining such employments. The maximum weekly working hours, including overtime, will be
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