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Republic Geodetic Authority terminates strike

23. 12. 2015.

Through the mediation of the Republic Agency for Peaceful Settlement of Labour Disputes, a week-long strike in Republic Geodetic Authority was terminated and work process was normalized.In order to minimize damaging consequences, representatives of the Ministry of Labour, Employment, Veteran and Social Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government and Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure were all included in collective labour dispute before the Agency between Republic Geodetic Authority and Strikers’ Committee – Unified trade union of RGA, Trade Union ”Nezavisnost” of RGA and Trade Union of Employees of RGA.During the procedure, the Government of the Republic of Serbia, in order to permanently resolve all disputable issues in RGA, has reached a Decision on formation of Working Group whose purpose is to propose a program for restructuring of Republic Geodetic Authority. The main task of this Working Group is to do an analysis of total number of employees, suggest new internal organizational structures, determine optimal number of services in local self-government units, determine the dynamics for resolving backlog cases as well as financing method and other important issues.In a constructive atmosphere and with a complete trust in satisfactory outcome of the procedure, representatives of trade union organizations and employer have issued and adopted Recommendation, thus making the termination of strike possible.The procedure before the Republic Agency for Peaceful Settlement of Labour Disputes was conducted by Živko Kulić PhD, a conciliator who is entered into the Agency Directory of conciliators and arbiters.