PM to meet with union leaders to specify cuts

Prime Minister Petr Nečas is to meet with labour union representatives on Thursday evening to specify the means by which the government intends to decrease public sector wages in 2011. Unions have complained they have not been informed of a clear plan to implement the government’s recent proposal of cuts and say they will prepare their further response according to what they learn from the PM. The most recent proposal, which was passed by the cabinet but has not been published, entails “bracket remuneration” that would allow employees’ salaries to be set regardless of the number of years they have been employed. Union leaders say they will not agree with this proposal.