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Severance packages for employees in education to be paid out January 4

Belgrade, 16 December 2005

Serbian Minister of Finance Mladjan Dinkic announced today that severance packages for 4,485 employees in the education sector, whose requests for voluntary termination of work relations have been accepted by the government, will be paid out as of January 4, 2006, and that the government will realise the payment in full.

Mladjan Dinkic addresses the media

Following the meeting between representatives of the government and representative trade unions of education workers on the realisation of this social programme for education employees, Dinkic said that 7,000 people applied for the programme but only 4,485 applications were accepted so as not to interfere with the regular course of education in schools.

He recalled that the Ministry of Finance has proposed this programme on the condition that all 4,485 positions remain permanently closed after the payout, and that schools do not hire new employees to replace those who voluntarily terminated their work relations. The work engagement of all volunteers will formally end on December 31.

Dinkic said that the text of the formal decision for termination of work relation has also been prepared and added that some 1.5 billion dinars will be spent on severance packages.

Dinkic said that it is now on the Ministry of Education to send the lists of volunteers to the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government and all municipalities, cities and towns in Serbia, because those who have accepted the severance package cannot be employed anywhere in the state administration for the next 10 years.

The minister said that the budgetary funds for this programme have already been set aside and that this programme will by no means affect the salaries of those employees who have decided to keep their jobs. What is more, their January salaries will be increased by 5.4 percent, concluded the minister.