UNION OF AUTONOMOUS TRADE UNIONS OF CROATIA

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UNION OF AUTONOMOUS TRADE
UNIONS OF CROATIA

• PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF THE UATUC SURVEY
• World Day for Decent Work
• Marina Kasunic Peris

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METHODOLOGY OF THE SURVEY

• Shop stewards of the affiliated trade unions
  collected data with employers where that trade
  union has its members aim to gain insight
  into working conditions of workers with employers
  where trade union is organized
• UATUC county representatives collected data with
  employers where there is no trade union aim
  to gain insight into working conditions of
  workers with employers where trade union is not
  organized

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SCOPE OF THE SURVEY

• Carried out with 159 employers
• 12 counties
• Employing total of 48.039 workers
• 846 workers participated in the survey

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With how many employers participating in
the survey is trade union organized?
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SCOPE OF THE SURVEY

• Agriculture and food industry (45 workers with 6
  employers)
• Tourism and catering (57 workers with 16
  employers)
• Wood industry (104 workers with 9 employers)
• Textile industry (64 workers with 14 employers)
• Transport
• Chemical industry (91 workers with 7 employers)
• Shipbuilding and ferrous metallurgy (186 workers
  with 19 employers)
• Trade (148 workers with 6 employers)
• Construction (64 workers with 15 employers)
• Public government and local self-government
• Education
• Financial mediation (banks and insurance
  companies) (20 workers with 4 employers)
• Media
• Other service activities (security services,
  hairdressers etc.)

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SCOPE OF THE SURVEY (Gender structure)
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SCOPE OF THE SURVEY (Age structure)
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Do workers have temporary or permanent
employment?
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Duration of fixed-term employment contracts
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Are fixed-term employment contracts
concluded more often with men or women?
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What age group usually has fixed-term employment
contracts?
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Are wages paid in accordance with the employment
contract?
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Is undeclared work present with employers
where trade union is organized?
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Does employer pay wages regularly?
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Are workers allowed to take annual leave in this
year?
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How many workers receive wages according to
contracted amounts?
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Did workers get vacation bonus this year?
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Do employers pay Christmas and vacation
bonuses?
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AMOUNTS OF CHRISTMAS AND VACATION BONUSES

• The highest Christmas bonus 2.500,00 kn in
  metal industry
• The lowest Christmas bonus 250,00 kn in textile
  industry
• The highest vacation bonus 2.500,00 kn in
  chemical industry
• The lowest vacation bonus 400,00 kn or not paid
  at all

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How often do workers work overtime?
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How much do employers pay overtime work?
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How many hours of paid and unpaid overtime work
there are?
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OVERTIME WORK (number of hours)

• In total, workers work in average 3.553 hours
  overtime a week, that is 14.212 hours a month, on
  that basis 77 workers workers could be employed.

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Overtime work (employers profit)

• On the basis of unpaid overtime work - 212
  workers whose overtime work is not paid enable
  their employers to realize extra profit of
• 145.080 kuna a month.

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How many workers would like to change their
employers?
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Are workers satisfied with occupational safety
and health?
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Do employers prohibit trade union organizing?
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DECENT WORK

• Decent work implies a productive job in which
  workers rights are protected, in which one can
  earn a decent wage and where social protection
  for workers exists.
• It also implies a sufficient number of jobs to
  enable all workers to have full access to the
  possibility of earning (Juan Somavia, ILO
  Director General, 87th International Labour
  Conference, 1999)

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WHAT MAKES WORK DECENT?

• Respect of workers rights
• Equality of men and women
• Workers security through system of social
  protection
• Social dialogue
• Wage which enables decent life
• No exploitation of workers
• Respect of the right to organize

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FACTS AND CONCLUSIONS FROM THE SURVEY

• Unfavourable position of women and young people
  at the labour market (fixed-term employment
  contracts prevail)
• Undeclared work is present
• workers loose because of lower contributions for
  pension and health insurance
• workers loose because of lower benefits during
  unemployment period workers social protection
  is questionable
• Workers are not sufficiently familiar with their
  rights protection of workers rights is
  questionable (13 of workers are not familiar
  with terms of their contracts, 49 of workers
  are not familiar with occupational safety and
  health )
• 41 of workers receive wages which are minimum
  wages or lower than minimum wages is this
  decent wage?
• 49 of workers often work overtime is this the
  case of workers exploitation?
• Payment of wages is late more than 1 month if
  trade union is not organized strike actions are
  not possible?

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NEGATIVITIES FOR NATIONAL BUDGET

• Employers must inform workers about working
  conditions and occupational safety and health
  minor misdemeanour fine 10,000 30,000 kn
• Employer must pay minimum wage misdemeanour
  60,000 100,000 kn per worker minimum
  7.080.000,00 kn
• Employers do not allow workers to take annual
  leave according to law 31,000 60,000 kn
  minimum 1.705.000,00 kn

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• Only a decent job enables people to have decent
  life (ILO)
• Do workers in Croatia have decent lives?

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• THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!