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Slovenia

Background information on industrial relations in Slovenia

• 21 Dec 2007
  Slovenia: Unions push for further pay rise in the wake of agreement in catering and tourism

  In early September 2007, the social partners in the catering and tourism sector concluded an annex to the pay-related part of the sectoral collective agreement. Initially, strong disagreements over the pay rise emerged among the negotiating parties. However, in September 2007, the parties agreed on a basic pay rise of 2.5% starting from 1 August 2007. Nevertheless, negotiations on a further pay rise began at the end of October 2007 without any outcome.

• 21 Dec 2007
  Slovenia: New employer organisation in commerce sector

  A new employer organisation, the Slovenian Chamber of Commerce (TZS), organising companies in the commerce sector, was founded in mid November 2006. As membership of TZS is not compulsory but voluntary, the organisation can legitimately represent employers’ interests and act as an employer organisation. At present, TZS has over 2,800 members from wholesale and retail companies and small shopkeepers, which includes all major companies.

• 20 Dec 2007
  Slovenia: Impact of the working time directive on collective bargaining in the road transport sector — Slovenia

  The Directive 2000/15/EC is implemented in Slovenia in the Act on Working Time and Compulsory Rest Periods of Persons Performing Mobile Road Transport Activities, and on Recording Equipment (Tachographs) in Road Transport. However, there exists an on going debate about that Act and many violations of regulation of working time are reported in the sector. Because of that it could be expected that the problems connected with the topics covered with the Directive will stay on the agenda of Slovene social partners in future. The implementation of the Directive did not bring new topics to the collective bargaining agenda in areas of health and safety or working conditions, while it influenced the debate on working time.

• 16 Nov 2007
  Slovenia: Industrial relations in the postal sector — Slovenia

  This is the Slovenian contribution to the comparative analytical report on Industrial relations in the postal sector.

• 01 Oct 2007
  Slovenia: Representativeness of the social partners: Agricultural sector – Slovenia

  The aim of this representativeness study is to identify the respective national and supranational actors (i.e. trade unions and employer organisations) in the field of industrial relations in the agriculture sector in Slovenia. In order to determine their relative importance in the sector’s industrial relations, this study will, in particular, focus on their representational quality as well as their role in collective bargaining.

• 24 Sep 2007
  Slovenia: Consensus on social agreement for 2007–2009

  In July 2007, the social partners and the government reached a consensus on the Social Agreement for the period 2007–2009. This was achieved after 18 months of talks and after the three sides had closed the chapter on pay policy, the most contentious issue. Trade unions are particularly satisfied with this chapter because the collective agreements system has been maintained, despite employer demands to negotiate pay at company level only.

• 24 Sep 2007
  Slovenia: New public sector agreement to abolish pay differences

  In July 2007, after five years of negotiations, the government and the public sector trade unions reached agreement on the overall intersectoral collective agreement for the public sector. On the trade union side, 24 trade unions took part in the negotiations and 18 of these signed the agreement. Trade unions and the government will now have to negotiate the provisions of the sectoral collective agreements.

• 13 Aug 2007
  Slovenia: Economically dependent workers in Slovenia

  The issue of economically dependent workers has not yet come to the fore in Slovenia, and only some aspects of the issue in relation to self-employment and freelance work emerge in public discussions. However, from the statistics available, it is clear that some workers in Slovenia fall into the category of economically dependent workers.

• 13 Aug 2007
  Slovenia: Social partners agree on amendments to labour relations law

  After one year of tripartite negotiations, a consensus was reached on draft amendments to the Law on labour relations. The amendments represent a compromise between the rather radical demands of employers to reduce workers’ rights and the trade union demands to defend them. Overall, the amended law introduces greater flexibility into the labour market.

• 30 Jul 2007
  Slovenia: Unions call for cautious approach in privatisation of public services

  In mid March 2007, the five major trade union confederations in Slovenia organised a protest rally against the government’s plans for public sector reform. The confederations strive for gradual and cautious liberalisation of the public sector and are against unlimited privatisation. They warned the government if it does not take into account their demands they will intensify trade union activity and call for a referendum.

• 30 Jul 2007
  Slovenia: Trade unions oppose major reform of pension system

  In March 2007, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) encouraged Slovenia to undertake substantive reforms of its pension system in an effort to ensure its sustainability. However, the Union of Free Trade Unions of Slovenia (ZSSS) contends that the current pension system is delivering good results. ZSSS believes that Slovenia must preserve the intergenerational solidarity, justice and economic stability of its pension system.

• 24 Jul 2007
  Slovenia: Employee financial participation in the new Member States —Slovenia

  This report describes the current situation in relation to employee financial participation (EFP) in Slovenia.

• 13 Jun 2007
  Slovenia: Industrial relations developments 2006 – Slovenia

  On 22nd October, about 1 million of the nation’s 1.6 million eligible voters cast their ballots in local elections. The euro was introduced in Slovenia on 1 January 2007. Slovenia is the first new EU member state to introduce the euro.In the first half of 2008, Slovenia will be the first new Member State to hold the Presidency of the European Union. In 2008 Slovenia will also hold the Presidency of the Council of Europe for the period of half of a year. The government expects Slovenia to join the Schengen no-border zone by the end of 2007.

• 18 May 2007
  Slovenia: Eiro comparative analytical report on gender and career development-The case of Slovenia

• 18 May 2007
  Slovenia: Representativeness of the social partners: Telecommunications sector - Slovenia

  This sectoral study examines the representativeness of the main industrial relations actors in the telecommunications sector in Slovenia as of May 2006.

• 27 Apr 2007
  Slovenia: Trade unions defend autonomy of health insurance institute

  After a lengthy period of negotiations, the government and the social partners agreed on the amendments to the legislation on healthcare and health insurance. One of the most controversial issues of the negotiations related to the proposal of the Ministry of Health to expel representatives of trade unions and employer organisations with voluntary membership from the governing body of the Health Insurance Institute of Slovenia, thereby abolishing the institute’s autonomy. During the negotiations, the trade unions succeeded in changing the government’s proposal.

• 12 Mar 2007
  Slovenia: Agreement reached on distribution of trade union assets

  After more than 15 years of negotiations, the seven representative trade union confederations, which organise more than 90% of all trade union members in Slovenia, have concluded an agreement on the distribution of trade union assets.

• 19 Feb 2007
  Slovenia: European actors’ union highlights problems of services directive for performing artists

  In November 2006, the biannual meeting of the International Federation of Actors was held in Slovenia’s capital city, Ljubljana, in cooperation with the Trade Union of Culture of Slovenia (GLOSA). The main issues on the agenda of the meeting were EU developments regarding the services directive in the internal market, the Green Paper on European Labour Law relating to the status of the artist, and the joint project regarding the enlargement of social dialogue in the performing arts.

• 19 Feb 2007
  Slovenia: Trade unions push for 13th month wages and Christmas bonus

  In November 2006, the Union of Free Trade Unions of Slovenia once again called on employers to award workers with a ‘13th-month’ payment according to the provisions of sectoral collective agreements. In 2005, 21.6% of workers received this payment. Moreover, the union requested the payment of a Christmas bonus to employees, where this was provided for by a collective agreement or other special agreement between employers and trade unions.

• 19 Feb 2007
  Slovenia: Unions outraged at government proposal to charge for abortions

  In November 2006, the Ministry of Labour, Family and Social Affairs published on its website its proposed strategy to increase fertility rates in Slovenia. Among the numerous measures outlined, the strategy contains a proposal to charge for abortion procedures. This measure has provoked much controversy, with numerous non-governmental organisations, trade unions, physicians and others protesting against it. Contrary to the ministry’s strategy, the Union of Free Trade Unions of Slovenia emphasises employment security as the basic precondition to encourage young women to have a child.

• 22 Jan 2007
  Slovenia: Social partners critical of labour inspection annual report

  In line with legal requirements, the Labour Inspectorate of the Republic of Slovenia submitted a report on its work for 2005 to the government in Spring 2006. The report was also discussed by the Economic and Social Council of Slovenia. However, because the report was not submitted to the council in a timely fashion, it was not possible to take into account numerous critical remarks of the social partners. In particular, trade union representatives criticised the shortcomings in reporting on the implementation of labour legislations in state administration.

• 15 Jan 2007
  Slovenia: Euro-Mediterranean Summit held in Ljubljana

  The annual Euro-Mediterranean Summit of Economic and Social Councils took place in Slovenia in November 2006. It was hosted jointly by the Slovenian Economic and Social Council and the European Economic and Social Committee. The summit brought together civil society representatives from the 25 EU Member States and 10 Mediterranean partner countries, as well as representatives from national, regional and international institutions.