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07/03/2011
High unemployment, unpaid wages and rising prices have many scrambling to keep food on the table.
By Igor Jovanovic for Southeast European Times in Belgrade – 07/03/11
High unemployment, unpaid wages and rising prices have many scrambling to keep food on the table.
By Igor Jovanovic for Southeast European Times in Belgrade – 07/03/11
It was a dramatic, painful way to drive the point home.
Halko Drustinac and Zoran Bulatovic, two workers in Novi Pazar, were fed up with not receiving their paycheck. The company that employs them allegedly owes them two years' worth of wages.
In a bid to draw attention to their plight -- and the difficulties faced by Serbian workers in general -- each of them took a nail and hammered it into his hand.
The act caused a public furor and further highlighed the anxiety many Serbs feel about the state of the economy. These days, having a job is no guarantee of being able to make ends meet -- not when cash-strapped companies find themselves issuing IOUs instead of pay.
According to data from the Association of Free and Independent Unions of Serbia, only 17% of private employers regularly pay their employees' salaries.
Halko Drustinac and Zoran Bulatovic, two workers in Novi Pazar, were fed up with not receiving their paycheck. The company that employs them allegedly owes them two years' worth of wages.
In a bid to draw attention to their plight -- and the difficulties faced by Serbian workers in general -- each of them took a nail and hammered it into his hand.
The act caused a public furor and further highlighed the anxiety many Serbs feel about the state of the economy. These days, having a job is no guarantee of being able to make ends meet -- not when cash-strapped companies find themselves issuing IOUs instead of pay.
According to data from the Association of Free and Independent Unions of Serbia, only 17% of private employers regularly pay their employees' salaries.
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