Some of the companies likely to bid on Mostar Aluminij do not have good track records as good corporate citizens. Allegations of corruption, bribery, fraud, extortion and other crimes haunt many of the regions biggest aluminum companies.
Experts say the tender process to privatize BiH”s most important industrial plant is not transparent and is open to corruption. Odd requirements in the tender eliminate many of the best aluminum companies and a plan to have multiple rounds of bidding opens the process to manipulation.
A round-up of suggestions from experts, officials, inspectors, and workers that could make a difference.
Unless the question of unpaid contributions for pensions is addressed soon, social unrest threatens and many workers may never be able to retire, union representatives warn. Even when many people do retire, they are barely surviving by working unregistered and eating in free public kitchens.
Looking for a job in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) is a lot like buying a lottery ticket, say young job seekers, with all the odds
By bringing accusations against her boss into a court of law, a woman working for the Federation Archive could change attitudes and ways to response to workplace harassment.
Labor inspectors weren’t much help to 28-year-old clerk Mirela Tasić.
One of the most serious problems facing workers in Bosnia and Herzegovina today is the failure of companies and government to make required contributions into pension funds. Yet pension and tax officials are doing little to collect debts or encourage contributions.
Employers are not solely to blame for black market labor and not all of the more than 240,000 unofficial workers in BiH have been forced to work without rights or benefits. Many choose that way to work.
Employers devise ways to avoid paying high contributions for workers, while labor inspectors and responsible officials are ignoring obvious irregularities.
Workers who have put decades into jobs may never get to retire because of unpaid contributions to health insurance and pension funds. All they can do is keep on working for daily wages – and hoping things will change.
Struggling to remain competitive and profitable, textile and shoe-making factories skimp on salaries and pension contributions and workers don’t protest out of fear they could end up worse off.
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