Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:55:48 +0200https://english.radio.cz/wage-rises-take-central-position-business-economic-and-political-stage-8251518© 2026 Radio Prague International Wages are now a growing issue across the Czech Republic. The central bank sees wage rises as a tool in the next year or so which can push up inflation to desirable levels. Trade unions say their membership curbed their demands during the recent recession but it’s now time for companies to offer more from what are quite often double digit profit increases. A sympathetic government is often caught in the middle. Vít Samek is the deputy chairman of the country’s biggest confederation of trade unions, the Bohemian and Moravian Confederation of Trade Unions, and says it’s high time that companies offer more generous wage increases and erode the high wage differences between the Czech Republic and neighbouring countries such as Germany and Austria. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/skoda_auto_montaz.jpg?timestamp=1631880004 https://english.radio.cz/wage-rises-take-central-position-business-economic-and-political-stage-8251518 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9