This document discusses several topics related to Czech employees including:
- Wage development in the Czech Republic compared to other EU countries
- Minimum wage rates in selected EU countries
- Demands for increasing the minimum wage and reducing standard working hours in the Czech Republic
- Health benefits for sick employees and opposition to waiting periods
- Promotion of employees' rights to freedom of association and collective bargaining
- Views on preparing for future changes related to digitalization and Industry 4.0
- Ensuring equal treatment and pay for both domestic and foreign employees
- Cooperation between Czech trade unions and European organizations to advocate for stronger social rights
7. How much would our wages be at different exchange rates?
Average wage Q4 2017:
31 646 CZK
1 172 € 1 302 €24,3CZK/€
1 465 €
8.
9. „…after 25 years' experience, it is obvious how our
situation will develop within the European economy if we
continue along the same route of a cheap labour policy.
This is the way of technological backwardness and
downward movement to lower processing stages, with a
lower added value, a lower valuation, lower productivity
and of course also lower wages. It is the way in which the
Czech Republic could fall into the poverty trap.“
Source: Vision of the Economic Strategy Change in the Czech Republic, 2015
13. What is the minimum wage?
Minimum wage in selected EU countries in Euro/hour (2018)
We are still among „the
cheapest“ in the EU.
14. What is the minimum wage?
We are still among „the
cheapest“ in the EU.
Minimum wage in selected EU countries in PPS (2018)
15. Minimum Wage Development
Minimum wage development in 1991 – 2018 (CZK/month)
Zdroj: Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, 2018
Minimum wage at the begging of year
Raised in Q3 or Q4
24. Zdroj: Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, 2018
Tripartite with Slovakia
Representatives of the Czech and
Slovak governments, trade unions
and employers met on Thursday
March 30, 2017, at the second
joint meeting of the Czech and
Slovak tripartite.
25. Zdroj: Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, 2018
Visegrad Group Tripartite
Prime Minister Sobotka
launched the first ever
joint meeting of the
tripartite countries of the
Visegrad Group on
February 16, 2016.
27. Workers’ health
is our utmost concern. Workers, afraid
to heal at home for reducing their
families‘ income, are the worst way
forward.
28. The long-term sickness benefit is higher since 1 January 2018 thanks to ČMKOS
Whereas by 2018,
employees received 60
percent of the assessment
base from the 15th day of
illness, the benefit would
now increase by six
percentage points from the
31st day of the illness and
to 72 percent from the 61st
day.
29. Attitude of employers, who refuse
to cancel the waiting period,
suggests that their goal is a cheap
employee working in times of
illness.
31. Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 70
Article 23
(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of
employment, to just and favourable conditions of
work and to protection against unemployment.
(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to
equal pay for equal work.
32. Universal Declaration of Human Rights turns 70
(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and
favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his
family an existence worthy of human dignity, and
supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social
protection.
(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade
unions for the protection of his interests.
34. #Society4.0
It is necessary to identify future problems and look for answers. It is also
necessary not to forget any of the groups in society. To prepare for the
future is not only about discussing it, but finding solutions in particular.
Trade unions are ready to look for serious solutions with everyone who is
sincerely interested.
40. Zdroj: Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, 2018
Our results speak for themselves
Thanks to trade unions
your wage can be
3934 CZK
higher
We are
GROWING
since 2015
+ 27 000 members
+ 202 organizations
48. ETUI Conference: What to do with
wages in CEE?
“Multinational companies do want to keep lower wages in Eastern
Europe and do not want to increase wages. We need a pay rise
#OurPayRise, if not the discontent of people could lead to populism
and solutions such as Brexit...”
49. Zdroj: Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, 2018
Toghether we are stronger!
ETUC Mid-Term Conference in Rome
Joint seminar of KOZ and FES in Bratislava Meeting of presidents of Visegrad trade
unions in Poland
50. What do we want?
- Decent life and honest work
- European wages and salaries
- Respect for workers’ rights
- Enforecement of workers’ rights
- Dignified ageing
- Better future