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.
A survey by the Center for Investigative Reporting found that unregistered black market workers see little point in complaining, and only hope for a change in the future.
The public waits too long and pays too much because of faulty bidding for roads, schools and other big projects.
Trying to get an easy payment plan stalls road construction in Konjic.
Bosnia is at the bottom of road contributions in Europe. What”s the reason: financing of bloated administration or lack of funds?
Nobody monitored federal main roads for one year because of administrative tangles. During that time, traffic inspectors in FBiH were administrators and not inspectors.
Auditors say that the government favors certain companies and fails to provide proper bid specifications which lead to missed deadlines and poor-quality road reconstruction.
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