[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"page:work\u002Fcollective-bargaining-agreement\u002Fupdates\u002F2014\u002Fserbia-employers-want-reduction-of-public-sector-wage-august-06-2014":3},{"id":4,"slug":5,"title":6,"short_title":7,"intro_text":7,"meta_description":8,"seo_title":9,"path":10,"content_type":11,"locale":12,"go_live_at":7,"first_published_at":13,"page_created_at":14,"published_at":13,"edit_url":15,"breadcrumbs":16,"seo":29,"body_blocks":37,"call_to_action":43,"categories":50,"labels":51,"owner":7,"authors":52,"related_pages":53,"related_sites":54,"in_subsite":55,"contact_page_url":56,"banner_message":57},9343,"serbia-employers-want-reduction-of-public-sector-wage-august-06-2014","Serbia -Employers want reduction of public sector wage -August 06, 2014",null,"The central employers’ organisation has stated that the fund of gross salaries in the public sector must be reduced by 25%. The organisation said that it is better to do it now and avoid bankruptcy, than to afterwards cut salaries by 40%.","","\u002Fwork\u002Fcollective-bargaining-agreement\u002Fupdates\u002F2014\u002Fserbia-employers-want-reduction-of-public-sector-wage-august-06-2014","pages.newspage","en","1969-12-30T23:00:00+00:00","2025-12-15T15:16:12.938772+00:00","\u002Fcms\u002Fpages\u002F9343\u002Fedit\u002F",[17,20,23,26,28],{"title":18,"slug":19},"World of Work","work",{"title":21,"slug":22},"Collective Bargaining Agreement","collective-bargaining-agreement",{"title":24,"slug":25},"Collective Bargaining Updates","updates",{"title":27,"slug":27},"2014",{"title":6,"slug":5},{"title":6,"description":8,"image":30,"canonical":31,"robots":32,"og_type":33,"twitter_card":34,"locale":12,"created_at":35,"last_modified_at":36},"https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fmedia\u002Fimages\u002FSocial_media_preview_image_-_2025.2e16d0ba.fill-1200x630.png","https:\u002F\u002Fwageindicator.org\u002Fwork\u002Fcollective-bargaining-agreement\u002Fupdates\u002F2014\u002Fserbia-employers-want-reduction-of-public-sector-wage-august-06-2014\u002F","index, follow","website","summary_large_image","1969-12-31T00:00:00+01:00","2025-12-26T22:09:10.789418+01:00",[38],{"type":39,"data":40},"raw_html_block",{"content":41,"variant":42},"\u003Cp>The central employers’ organisation has stated that the fund of gross salaries in the public sector must be reduced by 25%. The organisation said that it is better to do it now and avoid bankruptcy, than to afterwards cut salaries by 40%. The employers also requested a reduction of taxes and contributions paid for salaries from 65 to 40%. They claim that this would make workers more competitive than those in the Czech Republic, where the gross wage is the same as in Serbia, ‘but workers take home more money and give less to the state and less to the pension fund.’\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>English: \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.b92.net\u002Feng\u002Fnews\u002Fbusiness.php?yyyy=2014&mm=08&dd=06&nav_id=91208\">http:\u002F\u002Fwww.b92.net\u002Feng\u002Fnews\u002Fbusiness ... \u003C\u002Fa>   \u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp> \u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\u003Cspan class=\"discreet\">For more information, please contact the editor Jan Cremers, Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) \u003Ca href=\"mailto:cbn-aias@uva.nl\">cbn-aias@uva.nl\u003C\u002Fa> or the communications officer at the ETUI, Mariya Nikolova \u003Ca href=\"mailto:mnikolova@etui.org\">mnikolova@etui.org\u003C\u002Fa>. For previous issues of the \u003Ci>Collective bargaining newsletter\u003C\u002Fi> please visit \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.etui.org\u002FE-Newsletters\u002FCollective-bargaining-newsletter\">http:\u002F\u002Fwww.etui.org\u002FE-Newsletters\u002FCollective-bargaining-newsletter\u003C\u002Fa>. You may find further information on the ETUI at \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.etui.org\u002F\">www.etui.org\u003C\u002Fa>, and on the AIAS at \u003Ca href=\"http:\u002F\u002Fwww.uva-aias.net\u002F\">www.uva-aias.net\u003C\u002Fa>.\u003C\u002Fspan>\u003C\u002Fp>","light",{"text":44,"link":45},"Contact us",{"title":44,"url":46,"description":44,"rel":47,"type":48,"id":49},"\u002Fabout\u002Fcontact","follow","internal",24590,[],[],[],[],[],false,"\u002Fwork\u002Fliving-wages\u002Fcontact-us","\u003Cp>Welcome to WageIndicator. Same organisation, same information, new look!\u003C\u002Fp>"]