The commemoration in Pécs started at the monument of the Revolutionary Workers Councils where József Perényi, president of the Mecsek Association of Workers’ Councils held a speech.
The objective of the project is to enhance occupational safety and health, to provide targeted information to and to raise awareness among employees and workers and to improve working conditions in the IT, communication, financial, insurance, real estate, scientific and technological branches.
On 12 November 2018, the workers’ side of the VKF will consult and on 13 November the three parties will negotiate on the minimum wage in 2019, the guaranteed minimum wage and the national wage recommendation.
The National Confederation of Workers’ Councils agrees with the proposal of the central bank according to which the efficiency of retraining programs for public employees should be enhanced.
Both employers and trade unions deem it necessary to increase the number and level of flexible employment forms in as many sectors as possible.
The legal assistance network operated by the National Confederation of Workers’ Councils, called JOGpontok and the National Union of Students in Hungary (HÖOK) signed a cooperation agreement with a view to rendering information to student employees and to resolving their labour disputes.
In 2016, employees in the private sector did not work on 14,1% of the official working days due to holiday, sick leave, excused and unexcused absence, revealed the analysis of the Central Statistical Office. On the average, employees were absent from their workplace for 39.1 days in 2016.
The firm position of the National Confederation of Workers’ Councils is that the planned changes should not result in any wage decrease of workers and employees.
The picture is getting clearer concerning the regulation relevant for Hungarian posted workers, but according to road transport companies for instance, road transporting should not be regarded as posting, the president of ÉVOSZ (National Association of Constructing Industry Entrepreneurs) has pointed out the fact, that 2/3 of Hungarian workers active in the constructing industry are not considered as posted workers but sole entrepreneurs – as written in the latest edition of ’World Economy’.
The Congress of the National Confederation of Workers’ Councils has unanimously re-elected Imre Palkovics to be the president of the organisation during its VIIth Congress in Balatonalmádi on 25-26th May. In his speech Imre Palkovics quoted Pope John Paul II.: „Technology transforms work. But the subject of work continues to be man.” He added: „The job of the Confederation is to protect the working man.”