The employees of the judicial institutions of the Republika Srpska, in which the Trade Union of the Judiciary has trade union organizations, excluding judges and prosecutors, went on strike today, demanding, among other things, that, as they state, discrimination in the payment of holiday pay, hot meals and benefits basis of seniority.
President of the Republika Srpska Judiciary Union Siniša Petrović appealed to sit down as soon as possible at the negotiating table with the Ministry of Justice in order to reach a solution.
He told journalists in front of the District Court in Banja Luka that the Trade Union is also demanding that the salary increase percentage of all employees be adjusted to the salary increase percentage of the holders of judicial institutions.
Petrović stated that the Trade Union also requests that the provision that stipulates that up to 35 percent compensation for the volume, weight and type of work be included in the basic salary be removed from the Law on Wages, and that it be moved to the Special Collective Agreement.
The workers of the District Public Prosecutor’s Office in Prijedor and all three courts in that city are also on strike since this morning, but not in the Prijedor office of the Attorney General’s Office of the Republika Srpska.
The administrative staff of the Trade Union Organization of the Basic Court in Sokolac, 42 of them, have been on a general strike since this morning, while respecting the minimum work process, stated the president of that organization, Mladen Bašević.
He pointed out that this union organization supports the demands of the Republika Srpska Judiciary Union.
