"We are satisfied. We have done what we can and must to eliminate the great injustice which is built in this law - that those working at night, on Sundays or holidays and have minimum wage do not have the right to bonuses, the right that everybody else enjoys," Dušan Semolič of the ZSSS told reporters before filing the signatures. "We hope that reason will prevail in the National Assembly, and that a majority will be found to endorse the proposal of all seven trade union associations," he said.

The initiative of the change in definition of the minimal wage includes the change of the act on minimal wage, where bonuses for night, weekend and holiday work would be excluded from the minimum wage.

Today the coalition had agreed that the rights of workers for bonuses should be equalized regardless of the income they earned, said Simona Kustec Lipicer, head of the SMC deputy group, at the National Assembly. "This means that the coalition will support this proposal and facilitate the procedure. "

Thus the first reading is expected to be held as a part of the September plenary of the National Assembly. ZSSS has already greeted the coalition's support of their proposal. They said that "the workers expect that today's statements of the coalition representatives will result in a more just definition of minimum wage as soon as possible.".

Chamber of Commerce and Industry: It's a social own goal
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia expressed bewilderment at the decision of the SMC Party to support the Unions. "Redefinition would be a social own goal," was the response of the General Director of the Chamber Samo Hribar Milič. "Instead of reducing the excessive burden on salaries and thus allowing workers to earn more, the increase of gross salaries takes also from those who already have the smallest salaries, and demands larger taxes and other dues. Which most certainly can't be considered a social measure," Hribar Milič wrote.

G. K. , B. V.
Translated by G. K.