Govt Proposes 5% Wage Cut to Public Servants

Ljubljana, 22 June - The government unveiled to public sector trade unions on Tuesday a plan to cut public sector salaries by 5% on average for the next two years as part of austerity measures. The announcement was met with anger from the unions.

Ljubljana PM Borut Pahor attending a meeting between the government negotiating team and representatives of public sector trade unions to debate the guidelines for the 2011 and 2012 national budgets. Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

Ljubljana
PM Borut Pahor attending a meeting between the government negotiating team and representatives of public sector trade unions to debate the guidelines for the 2011 and 2012 national budgets.
Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

Ljubljana PM Borut Pahor (right) and Public Administration Minister Irma Pavlinic Krebs (left) arriving to a meeting between the government negotiating team and representatives of public sector trade unions to debate the guidelines for the 2011 and 2012 national budgets. Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

Ljubljana
PM Borut Pahor (right) and Public Administration Minister Irma Pavlinic Krebs (left) arriving to a meeting between the government negotiating team and representatives of public sector trade unions to debate the guidelines for the 2011 and 2012 national budgets.
Photo: Tamino Petelinsek/STA

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