Representatives of the former workers of the Aluminum Plant, the Government and the Labor Fund signed yesterday the framework agreement on the regulation of mutual obligations, which stipulates that the Labor Fund will pay the PIO Fund compensation for benefited service and for the remaining group of about fifty KAP workers.
This refers to the remaining group of workers of the former KAP who lost their jobs due to the interruption of production, and to whom, during the work of KAP in bankruptcy, the bankruptcy administration did not pay benefits for employees who worked in workplaces with difficult conditions.
Because of this, a large number of employees of companies from the metal-mining complex that have gone bankrupt or stopped production cannot meet the conditions for retirement.
In order to help them, the Parliament adopted amendments to the law - article 197n, which stipulates that they can acquire the right to a pension if they have completed 25 years of insurance experience or at least 15 years effectively spent in a workplace where insurance experience is counted with increased duration - benefited experience.
This article of the Law applies only to former employees in the metal processing and mining industry sector whose employment has ended due to the procedure for the introduction, duration and termination of bankruptcy, suspension of production caused by shutdown or closure of production capacities. According to this article, they must fulfill the conditions for a more favorable retirement by December 31, 2024.
The labor fund will settle the obligations for unpaid benefited working experience using the minimum wage as the base, as was done for groups of workers who were previously granted this right. This group of workers previously protested several times in front of the Government or the Assembly because they were not included in earlier programs.
Representative of former employees of KAP Sandra Obradovic she told "Vijesti" that this was the last group of workers who did not use this right, and that a similar agreement had yet to be signed with the rest of the group of workers from the former Bauxite Mine and Steel Plant.
"Minister Naida Nišić promised that a similar agreement would soon be prepared and signed for those workers," Obradović said.
The group of KAP workers for whom the agreement was signed yesterday remains to finish the dispute before the Agency for Peaceful Resolution, so that the expert can determine how much benefited service they were denied during the bankruptcy and how much the Labor Fund should pay to the PIO Fund, and then the PIO Fund would start the procedure for determining the right to retire.
Obradović expects that all this will be resolved in the next two to three months.
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