The minimum wage in 2025 will amount to 53.592 dinars, which is an increase of 13 percent. That is 7 dinars per hour. The minimum wage covers the minimum consumer basket, and after six years the amount of the minimum wage was reached by agreement. The unions, however, consider this amount shameful
The United Trade Unions of Serbia "Sloga" assessed that the agreement on the minimum labor price for 2025, which amounts to 53.592 dinars, is a shameful act and that it represents the capitulation of the unions included in the Social and Economic Council.
The "Sloga" trade union stated in a statement that this amount represents "driving the nail into the coffin of trade unionism as an institution that should defend the rights of workers."
According to the opinion of "Sloge", the minimum of 53.592 dinars is "below any dignity".
Minimum labor cost for 2025, it will amount to 53.592 dinars, which is 13,7 percent more than the minimum for this year, it was agreed at today's session of the Social and Economic Council (SES).
Announcing the new amount of the minimum wage, Prime Minister Miloš Vučević said that this is the first time in six years that the decision was made through dialogue at the SES and not that the Government of Serbia makes it unilaterally.
"Earnings cover the minimum consumer basket for the first time," said the Prime Minister, reports RTS.
He added that the minimum price of work will be 308 dinars per hour, that this year's minimum wage expressed in euros is 404, and next year it will be 457.
"It is a serious increase, again a double-digit increase with all these circumstances that are happening in the world, in the region, and of course in Serbia. I think this is a serious economic result," Vučević pointed out.
He stated that care was taken not to jeopardize the growth of the gross social product, the work of employers and not to jeopardize the number of companies, jobs and budgetary and fiscal stability, as well as not to stop the largest investments.
"For the first time, we will have the minimum amount cover the minimum consumer basket that we have today, and we are talking about the data for May." We've never had that before, and if we and the President of the Republic manage to agree on a major action to reduce the consumer basket and essential life purposes, I think this result will be even more significant for our citizens," Vučević stressed.
Bakić: "Even 60.000 dinars is not enough"
Sociologist and activist Jovo Bakić previously told "Vreme" that he believes that even increasing the minimum wage to 60.000 dinars cannot cover all costs.
"For those 60.000, you barely cover the bills, food costs if you manage, and that's all." "Employers evaluate their whole lives in terms of dinars, and that's a lot for them," explains Bakić.
For years, the unions have demanded that, in accordance with the agreements within the SES, the minimum wage be equal to the amount of the minimum consumer basket.
And this was previously pointed out by the UN Committee for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights for the Republic of Serbia in 2022, when it wrote that it was concerned about the inadequate amount of the minimum wage, which is lower than the amount of the minimum consumer basket, with a recommendation to increase the minimum salary, and regularly adjusts to the cost of living in order to ensure a decent life for workers and their families.
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