While in the Eurozone last year there was an increase in hourly labor prices by six percent, in the Republika Srpska, the hourly wage is not defined, because there are no branch collective agreements. The same exists in the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, but trade unionists say that any single-digit percentage increase would effectively mean nothing, because they are in the Eurozone – and more than six times higher than in our country.
If you tried to calculate the minimum hourly wage in RS, it would look like this: The minimum wage of 673 marks divided by the minimum number of working days amounts to about 30 marks divided into eight hours a day, and it turns out that an hour of work costs a minimum of about 3 marks and 80 pfennigs.
In the FBiH, which, unlike the RS, has branch collective agreements and a defined hourly rate, trade unionists would consider an hourly rate increase of a few percent a misery. The only solution, they say, is to increase the minimum wage.
Selvedin Satorovic, Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Bosnia and Herzegovina: “The lowest hourly wages in branch collective agreements are in the field of textiles and amount to 3.45 BAM, and the highest in the metal industry, where it is 4.40. An increase of six percent, say in the Eurozone, is acceptable because wages there are a few thousand euros, and in six percent of us would represent nothing but misery”.
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