“It’s not quite right or logical. If the tariff salary is below the level of the guaranteed salary, it is necessary to add to its amount,” Jan Holický, chairman of the Association of Municipal and Municipal Office Secretaries of the Czech Republic, told Novinkám.
According to him, the system is demotivating. “At the moment when the employee is to be appreciated for working well and receives a personal evaluation, the supplement will be reduced and he will not receive an extra crown. Unless he would receive a personal allowance so large that it would exceed the minimum wage or the guaranteed salary,” Holický added.
The Union of Cities and Municipalities is also dissatisfied. “Our members try to have the best employees possible, but according to the set tariffs, they cannot even pay them up to the minimum wage level. So they have to come up with different ways to find funds from other parts of the budget and pay them money at least up to the level of the minimum wage,” complained the executive director of the Union, Radka Vladyková.
Salaries of civil servants and teachers will increase from January
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According to her, this is administratively demanding, completely unnecessary and also undignified for the municipality, as well as the employees.
“The state, which should emphasize the quality of employees, shows that it basically does not respect certain groups of workers in the offices, because it does not want to officially award them even the minimum wage,” she added. According to Novinek, the association of regions is also trying to change.
Trade unions, for example, have been protesting against low tariffs for a long time. The government is trying to direct any increase in the salaries of state and public employees more towards personal evaluation than towards the basis of the tariffs.
People from municipalities, officials and teachers
But now they were surprisingly joined by representatives of employers. According to Jiří Horecký, president of the Confederation of Employers’ and Entrepreneurs’ Unions, negotiations with Prime Minister Fiala are already being arranged.
“There will probably be more proposals. One of them is that the salary scales correspond to what has to be paid anyway. The second will certainly be if some change could be made for cities, municipalities and regions so that the tables do not apply to them and they can give more,” he said.
There is also talk of simplifying the tables.
“We have been warning for a long time that when the tariffs are below the minimum or guaranteed wage, employers still have to pay them, from other means than wages, for example operational,” pointed out the vice-chairman of the Czech-Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions, Jiří Vaňásek.
The problem with the first salary table concerns the employees of the local government, but also the Labor Office, the Czech Social Security Administration, non-pedagogical workers in education and non-medical workers in social care and health care. And also for workers in culture. That is more than two hundred thousand people.
Since January, the minimum wage has increased by 1,900 crowns to 20,800 CZK gross per month. The number of guaranteed salary levels will be reduced from eight to four, while the first group will be comparable to the minimum wage, the second will be CZK 24,960, the third will be CZK 29,120, and the fourth will be CZK 33,280.
Cities have to deal with money for schools. They do not know how much they will receive from the state
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