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РУБРИКА

(photo: Economy and business)

We have to offer solutions wherewith the safety and health
of the employees will be an issue which is transferred from

the offices to the factory halls and the workplaces

amount of 70% of the minimum wage for an А. Dimitrov: The cooperation with the
unemployed person with disability. It was a ILO has been maintained since the estab-
similar situation with the proposal of the lishment of the ILO to present day. In ad-
Health Insurance Fund for the employers to dition to the agreement on ratification of
pay the compensation for maternity leave, the ILO conventions, which are real inter-
and then the Fund would return them the national labour standards and which are a
paid funds. The organization of employers, part of the internal legal order in the coun-
in both cases, with arguments, convinced try, the ILO helped us a lot to increase our
the proposers that such legal solutions capacities and it raised our negotiating
would cause great financial difficulties for ability. There is an ongoing project which
the companies. However, in addition to this is funded by the European Union, and it is
dialogue, we also participate in the bipartite implemented by the ILO for promotion of
dialogue with our social partners. Through the social dialogue in Macedonia, through
this dialogue we harmonize the provisions which we also increase our visibility in the
of the general and the divisional collective public and we familiarize all employers
agreements, which are also very important from Macedonia with the need of associa-
for the existence of a good socio-economic tion and the necessity of a social dialogue.
climate for successful operation of the com- One month ago we also issued the first
panies and for the exercise of labour rights. Guide for the employers for more successful
collective bargaining.
You have good cooperation with the
International Labor Organization. What is Several months ago, your organiza-
the focus of this cooperation? tion started a new project named “Business

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