NEWS OF THE DAY: The need for adopting a legal solution for mandatory retirement at the age of 64 adopted
The Parliamentary Committee for Labour and Social Policy, today in the first reading, debated on the amendments to the Law on Labour Relations that are to provide mandatory retirement at the age of 64 and 15 years of work, which are submitted by a group of MPs. The Committee adopted the need for adopting such a legal solution, and before the second reading, a debate should be held by including all stakeholders, in order to hear their opinions. According to the analyses made by the proposers in coordination with the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy, about 6,000 people will reach the retirement age of 64 by the end of the year.
However, as they further clarify, it does not mean that according to the proposed legal changes that all of them will retire, as some of them have already requested extension to their employment. These changes anticipate termination of employment contracts at the age of 64 and 15 years of work, if not regulated by another law.
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CIVIL Conference on Green Values, Social Justice and Antinationalism
The conference “The Greens are Coming 2020”, organized by GREEN CIVIL (an organizational unit of CIVIL) in partnership with the Heinrich Bǒll Foundation, will be held on Thursday, November 19, at Hotel Park Residence (behind the football stadium) starting at 12.00 noon.
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FLASH NEWS
From November 9 to 15 the six inspection services in the country have carried out 4.822 inspections. Two hospitality facilities have been closed for non-compliance to the protection protocols, one in Gostivar and one in Ohrid, and 13,676 decisions for isolation of persons infected with COVID have been issued, as well as to persons who have been in contact with COVID infected patients.
There are only five inspectors at the level of the City of Skopje. We have anticipated eight new people for next year, given the large number of installations we have on the ground, but even with them we will probably not finish the work completely, said Acting Director of the Environmental Inspectorate Ana Petrovska.
Ministry of Labour and Social Policy has already prepared the draft version of the legal solution for declaring Sunday a non-working day and has submitted it to the ministries and the Government.
Members of the State Election Commission today drew lots to determine the order of the candidates for the local elections in Stip and Plasnica, and having in consideration the daily increase in the number of persons with COVID-19 and those in self-isolation, they stressed the need for consistent compliance to the protection measures against the coronavirus.
The basic salary of firefighters will increase by 20%, according to the demands of firefighters and received court rulings, announced today the Mayor of the City of Skopje, Petre Shilegov, after today’s meeting in the firefighting station in Avtokomanda.
The Constitutional judges with five votes “for” and three “against”, at today’s session decided to stop the procedure for assessing the constitutionality of Article 11 of the Law on amending the Law on Pardons from 2016.
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translation: N. Cvetkovska
